On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Joachim Zobel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 22.05.2008, 00:06 +0100 schrieb Tom Hughes: >> > Writing Apache modules in C is hard, and I don't think using mod_cpp >> > will make it much easier. Doing Apache modules in Perl (mod_perl has >> API >> > access including filters) is a lot easier. >> >> Ye gads no. We want to keep the memory footprint under some sort of >> control so mod_perl is a non-starter. > > Everybody seems obsessed with low memory footprint. Why? Memory is > cheap, and we are not planning an embedded system. What is the number of > concurrent requests we need to handle? >
http://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/rails1.openstreetmap-memory.html http://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/rails2.openstreetmap-memory.html with a hundred new users a day. So sure, memory is cheap, but not having to buy it is cheaper, especially as the system scales. Dave _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev

