i don't mind of few small percentage of cpu power to drop, So if it does
life much easier & security stay high it worth it.
How about SSL can it be compiled like php3 to use mod_so ?
Eli Marmor wrote:
> Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
>
> > My Q. was if the mod_so will reduce speed or security ?
>
> Of course it reduces speed (maybe except for some special platforms
> where PIC compilation is used always, like Compaq Tru64 UNIX), but
> you must ignore it. I'll explain:
>
> The CPU is not an issue, at least in 97%-98% of the sites (unless
> your overhead is hundreds of percents). In the WWW, there are so
> huge bottlecks, like the Internet connection, the other bottlenecks
> in the way to the end-user's browser, the context switch delay when
> running CGI-BINs, the parsing (of scripts like Perl and PHP), the
> need to load and parse htaccess files (sometimes even per request),
> reverse resolution of IP addresses (when it is not disabled), the
> TCP/IP stacking problems (Linux is "best" in it...), etc.
>
> In your specific case, there is another point which is much worse
> than all of these issues: SSL.
>
> Contrary to these considerations, the overhead of shared objects is
> small, and affects only the CPU. Of course the module will spend
> less CPU when it is linked statically than dynamically, but the
> price of having it statically is too high: maintainance becomes
> painful.
>
> The benefit of having a modular and flexible Apache worth any CPU
> second.
>
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