On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Dan Axtell <daniel.axt...@snet.net> wrote: > server on the back end. It seems like a lot of overhead to have mod_perl on > the front end purely for authentication; I might as well keep the monolithic > configuration I have now. Thanks for the input, though, it helps clarify > things.
It depends on the size of your httpd processes with mod_perl enabled. If you have handlers that don't load a lot of third party modules, you can get away with 10-20 meg mod_perl httpds. And a fair amount of that memory will be shared.