Just went to your company web site and read that you got the White Camel award. Congrats, both on the award and your new career!
We're talking to the Director of Development here guys... :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stas Bekman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "JT Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <modperl@perl.apache.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 3:33 AM Subject: Re: go crazy with me > JT Smith wrote: > > Yup, I've actually already done it that way with both > > Parallel::ForkManager in one instance and Proc::Queue as an alternative. > > I added in event handling with both Event and Event::Lib as seperate > > trials. All those implementations were relatively easy to do. But the > > question becomes, why? If everything else is running in Apache, why > > start a seperate service to run these tasks? And again, I said I want to > > go crazy. Let's not figure out how else we could do that (I already know > > that), but how could we do it using Apache? > > Here at mailchannels.com we have first used mp2 to handle the email > traffic shaping entirely inside mod_perl2, but the nature of our product > is so different from serving HTTP, it just won't scale (mostly > memory-wise, but also too many processes). We have now switched to having > Event::Lib (over libevent) doing all the non-blocking IO and using mp2's > protocol handler to do blocking IO (like network-bound operations). The > performance is just amazing, hardly any memory used and we can easily > handle a thousand concurrent connections on very low-end hardware. > > Switching to event based flow was a challenge, since you no longer have > the normal logic flow. But we have written a few abstraction layers and > now it's almost easy. We are planning to release our AsyncIO abstraction > module on CPAN once we have some spare resources. > > I highly recommend Event::Lib, at least for its wonderful maintainer: > Tassilo von Parseval, who's a great perl/C/XS expert and who is resolving > any problems with Event::Lib almost as soon as we are posting the bug > reports. I wish more CPAN authors were as responsive as Tassilo is :) > > -- > _____________________________________________________________ > Stas Bekman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://stason.org/ > MailChannels: Assured Messaging(TM) http://mailchannels.com/ > The "Practical mod_perl" book http://modperlbook.org/ > http://perl.apache.org/ http://perl.org/ http://logilune.com/
