We're putting together a site that involves processing images uploaded by
our users. I'm using Image::Magick to resize the images to a standard
size, and to create thumbnails. We will have an upload page, which hits
a CGI under mod_perl that handles the form data and processes the image.
I am wondering if this is the best way to handle this. When a user
uploads an image and it's being processed, am I occupying an entire child
process for the duration of the transaction? If each transaction lasts a
couple of seconds, it this a Bad Thing? Is there a more efficient way to
handle this?
I saw the Apache::Magick demo in the modperl site, but it doesn't really
apply to this situation, as I don't need to do dynamic rendering.
thanks,
Todd
