"Jeremy Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A backend server can realistically handle multiple frontend requests, since
> the frontend server must stick around until the data has been delivered
> to the client (at least that's my understanding of the lingering-close
> issue that was recently discussed at length here).
I won't enter the {Fast,Speedy}-CGI debates, having never played
with these, but the picture you're painting about delivering data to
the clients is just a little bit too bleak.
With a frontend/backend mod_perl setup, the frontend server sticks
around for a second or two as part of the lingering_close routine,
but it doesn't have to wait for the client to finish reading all the
data. Fortunately enough, spoonfeeding data to slow clients is
handled by the OS kernel.
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