I agree, benchmark just the lilypond invocation and you're likely to find it still takes just a second. More likely, in some following step the server CGI script writes the HTTP response data but never closes the TCP connection. If the script exits, perhaps a child process has been forked that is keeping the file descriptor open, or apache needs some clue when it's to be closed. If the server never closes the connection, the browser will give up after a timeout period, and only then display what it received.
Cheers, Curt McDowell -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jan Nieuwenhuizen Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 11:59 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: lilypond slowdown in CGI web program Jim Tisdall writes: > When I call lilypond to compile a score by means of a web page that is > using CGI, lilypond takes about 25 seconds to > *successfully* complete. From the commandline, same files and flags, > under a second; from a similar but non-web program, under a second. Are you certain that it's lilypond that takes so long? Have you replaced lilypond with a script that does something like #! /bin/bash date >> /tmp/lily.log time ./lilypond.bin "$@" >> /tmp/lily.log 2>&1 # time echo NOT: ./lilypond.bin "$@" >> /tmp/lily.log 2>&1 date >> /tmp/lily.log comment in/out the run lilypond/echo lilypond commands and play with that? Also, what are you building? I take it that you have seen http://weblily.net http://lilybin.com http://lilypond.org/schikkers and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox Greetings, Jan -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[email protected]> | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.nl _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
