solution The best would be *real* threads with really shared variables, but this is another topic ;-)
No kidding... -------------------------- Respectfully, Dan Rychlik IT Projects Engineer -----Original Message----- From: Alvar Freude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Eric Rybski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; perl-ithreads@perl.org <perl-ithreads@perl.org> Sent: Wed Jul 04 12:11:56 2007 Subject: Re: forks: shared variables between different applications or hosts Hi, -- Eric Rybski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are using mod_perl 1.0, or mod_perl 2.0 with the 'prefork' MPM, > I have successfully worked with a few companies to integrate forks into > Apache httpd instances. Additionally, if you use the forks::BerkeleyDB > add-on, you'll get excellent shared variable access performance (which > sounds like a requirement for your 100MB of data). hmmm, for a typical page I need between 50 and 1000 hash lookups. And sometimes more and sometimes fewer. But I'll make some tests: if this is fast enough, it seems to be a very good solution The best would be *real* threads with really shared variables, but this is another topic ;-) > I haven't yet posted Apache::forks to CPAN, but if you're interested in > evaluating it, I'll be happy to e-mail you a stable pre-release that > works with forks 0.23 and forks::BerkeleyDB 0.05. OK -- first I'll do some benchmarks to test if it might work. I think it would be the easyest and best way to do it, if fast enough! Thanks && Ciao Alvar -- ** Alvar C.H. Freude, http://alvar.a-blast.org/ ** http://www.assoziations-blaster.de/ ** http://www.wen-waehlen.de/ ** http://odem.org/
