Andrea, You might want to try mod_fcgi instead, as it has received maintenance and is targetted at Apache 2, whereas the original mod_fastcgi was built for 1.3 and received a cursory upgrade to 2.
http://fastcgi.coremail.cn/ That said, I have not experienced your problem before. P. On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Andrea Aime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrea Aime ha scritto: >> >> Andrea Aime ha scritto: >>> >>> Hi, >>> I'm struggling a trying to configure MapServer 5.2 >>> for the performance comparison presentation that we'll >>> hold at FOSS4G 2008 >>> (http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g/2008/paper/view/256) >>> >>> In particular, no matter what I do, a single, long running >>> mapserv process seems to be handling all of the requests >>> coming down the pipe, regardless of how many client threads >>> I'm using to hit the server. Some details on what I've >>> done so far follow. >> >> To answer myself, that was happening I added the >> PROCESSING "CLOSE_CONNECTION=DEFER" >> directive into a shapefile layer definition. It >> seems it's not exactly irrelevant, it's actually >> harmful (whilst it's beneficial, and works too, >> for postgis layers). >> >> When I removed it the fastcgi processes started to get >> spawn as configured in the fastcgi.conf file. > > This morning I started benchmarking again and ended up with a single > fastcgi process again, so the above is probably not the cause. > What made apache understand I want 20 processes instead of just one > remains a mystery, it has magically disappeared as it magically > appeared yesterday. > > Anyone has a clue? Is fastcgi supposed to be usable in production > under Ubuntu servers, are there known issues/instabilities? (this may > explain why out of the box mapserver is not built with fastcgi > support enabled in Ubuntu). > > In the meantime I'm going to try out the FastCgiServer directive > described here: > http://www.fastcgi.com/mod_fastcgi/docs/mod_fastcgi.html#FastCgiConfig > hoping it proves more reliable. > > Cheers > Andrea > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
