My experience of using DBI::Proxy several months ago is that it's
terribly slow, and breaks all the time.
It's not meant to be used in a production environment ( and that's
according to the authors ).
I managed to get it running, on linux and NT, but due to the lack of a
working fork() or threads support in perl on NT, I could only use a
single instance of the server at a time.
If you can get it working *nix to *nix, your mileage may be better.
Regards.
Bill McCabe wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I'm thinking of restructuring my setup so that I have my apache/mod_perl
> servers access database servers remotely using DBI::Proxy, rather than
> locally. Does anyone have a sense of what kind of performance degradation I
> should expect? Will it come chiefly from network latency (leaving
> encryption out for the moment)? Also, I've never managed to install
> DBI::Proxy successfully on any system (AIX 4.2.1/4.3.2/4.3.3, Red Hat
> 6.0/1/2; perl 5.005/5.6.0; apache 1.3.12/mod_perl 1.24). The tests always
> fails for the RPC piece. Is the RPC module typically this problematic?
>
> TIA
>
> Bill
