On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Ultimately, I don't see any way around the fact that proxying from one
> > server to another ties up two processes for that time rather than one, so
> > if your bottleneck is the number of processes you can run before running
> > out of RAM, this is not a good approach.
>
> The point is you only tie up the back end for the time it takes to deliver
> to the proxy, then it moves on to another request while the proxy
> dribbles the content back to the client. Plus, of course, it doesn't
> have to be on the same machine.
I was actually talking about doing this with no front-end proxy, just
mod_perl servers. That's what Theo was suggesting.
I use a mod_proxy front-end myself and it works very well.
- Perrin
