Get a fairly typical mod-perl setup. We have two load-balanced servers acting as front-end. They run threaded apache configured for lots of connections and KeepAlive on. They serve up as much stuff statically as possible, everything else is sent through mod_proxy_balancer to a number of backend servers.
The three back-end servers run a bunch of Catalyst apps under mod_perl - each server is configured for all apps. We've got around 30 sites in total, and currently have 6 distinct apps. We're building more new apps for different sites. We've now got a couple of problems: 1) We want to run different versions of the same app for different sites - this means I have a namespace problem for MyApp v1 vs MyApp v2 etc. 2) The load times for each app are reasonable, however the load time for the whole lot is now getting towards a couple of minutes. However whilst apache is waiting for the perl code to load it accepts connections. What are my deployment options for working around these problems? Carl
