Is there some sort of ssl version to handle secure image requests so you
dont get those nasty security flags?
John-
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Buddy Lee Haystack wrote:
> Tell me more...
>
> How about memory leaks & mod_perl issues?
>
>
>
> Justin wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I've been catching up on the modperl list archives, and would
> > just like to recommend "mathopd" as an image web server.
> >
> > After having difficulties with the sheer number of front end
> > apache processes necessary to handle 10 backend modperls,
> > (difficulties: high load average and load spikes, kernel time
> > wasted scheduling lots of httpds, higher than expected latency
> > on simple requests), I switched all images to another IP
> > address on the same box (extending their IMG SRC somewhat
> > obviously), but now served by mathopd.
> >
> > Mathopd is a simple select based, http 1.1 (keep alive)
> > compliant tiny webserver that is very configurable. I was
> > doubtful that it would hold up (it comes with zero documentation ..
> > the docs say "read the source"). But it has not crashed *once*,
> > and its very nice to see just one 22mb process with 500+ minutes
> > of cpu time (for several weeks of work), and have images
> > come in fast and reliably.
> >
> > It uses select and as many file handles for a proc as you have.
> > If load increases beyond (say) your limit of 1024 fds, it re-uses
> > currently unused but kept-alive fds, meaning a graceful
> > degradation. It is also exceedingly fast, much faster than
> > apache serving images (that doesnt matter, but it does mean
> > its frugal with your CPU).
> >
> > Of course I still have 120+ apache httpds (now just being front
> > end for *page* requests), and my wish is that mathopd would add
> > proxy and regexp rewrite capability, then I could do away with
> > apache completely on the front end !! or I guess apache2 with
> > mod_rewrite and mod_proxy would solve that, at the risk of
> > thread related teething problems.
> >
> > Just a recommendation from left field.
> > -Justin
>
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