I replicated this today outside of Catalyst (just a small 
FCGI/FCGI::ProcManager test script). If anyone else has seen this/fixed it, I'd 
appreciate a pointer. I'll report back to the list if/when I get it resolved so 
that there's an answer in the list archives for future people to google 
otherwise.

On Oct 31, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Daniel J. Luke <dl...@geeklair.net> wrote:
> We're actually running Catalyst::Runtime 5.80031 (currently), so I believe 
> it's using Catalyst::Engine::FastCGI which just does *STDOUT->syswrite()
> 
> I guess I try to do some testing with newer Catalyst (and maybe alternate 
> deployment methods), to see if that changes anything. Looking through the 
> Changelog, I didn't see anything specifically related to this, though 
> (although I imagine the Plack stuff makes it somewhat different in the more 
> recent releases). 
> 
> On Oct 30, 2013, at 11:03 PM, Hailin Hu <i...@h2l.name> wrote:
>> It is an engine relevant stuff.
>> Find which engine you are using ( for example, Plack::Handler::FCGI )
>> and look around codes around write(r), you may find something.
>> Good luck :)
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Daniel J. Luke <dl...@geeklair.net> wrote:
>>> I've got some legacy CGI code that does a bunch of processing and uses the 
>>> old hack of $| = 1; print "foo\n"; do_work(); print "foo done\n"; etc. 
>>> (solution #1 from http://wiki.catalystframework.org/wiki/longcomputations)
>>> 
>>> While I'll eventually convert it to a job queue, I'd like to create an 
>>> output-identical implementation first with Catalyst, however it seems like 
>>> I'm getting output buffering when I don't want it.
>>> 
>>> As a very simple test, I've set up apache 2.2, mod_fastcgi 
>>> (FastCgiExternalServer with -flush and without -flush) and a method like 
>>> this:
>>> 
>>> sub test: Local {
>>>   my ($self, $c) = @_;
>>> 
>>>   $c->res->body('');
>>>   $c->response->content_type( 'text/plain; charset=utf-8' );
>>>   $c->finalize_headers;
>>> 
>>>   my $i;
>>>   for($i=1;$i<8;$i++) {
>>>       $c->write("$i: foo bar baz\n");
>>>       sleep(1);
>>>   }
>>> }
>>> 
>>> I see all the data at once in my browser instead of a line every second, 
>>> and with tcpdump, can see that all of the data is coming back in one packet 
>>> and not in 8+ smaller packets like I expect. If I make the string that gets 
>>> passed to write longer, I get several packets, but all at once (and not 
>>> with each iteration through the for loop).
>>> 
>>> Am I missing something obvious? Is there some way to get the behavior I'm 
>>> expecting?

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