Re: Apache2/mod_perl2 an order of magnitude more powerful?

2002-04-24 Thread Ged Haywood

Hi there,

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Nigel Hamilton wrote:

> But having 250 worker threads instantiated in memory and ready to use the
> CPU is surely still better than 50 pre-forked servers?

Maybe, maybe not.  The only way to know is to try tuning it in your
particular circumstances.  Don't get hung up on one aspect of the
system if you need performance, there are lots of things to consider
in a complex system.  What really matters is whether or not you are
giving your users what they want.  Ask them.

73,
Ged.






Re: Apache2/mod_perl2 an order of magnitude more powerful?

2002-04-24 Thread Perrin Harkins

Nigel Hamilton wrote:
>   I would love to run 250 Apache children on my linux server but I
> just don't have enough memory (50 children max).

  thread still needs its own perl interpreter.Then you probably won't 
have enough memory with Apache 2 either.  There is some additional 
memory savings from sharing the opcode tree, but each   Expect it to be 
better, but you don't get something (unlimited parallelism) for nothing 
(limited RAM).

- Perrin




Re: Apache2/mod_perl2 an order of magnitude more powerful?

2002-04-24 Thread Nigel Hamilton

> > 250 http server threads running concurrently would be an order of
> > magnitude more powerful than my current set up.
> >
> > Have I got this right? or am I missing a big catch?
>
> No and yes in that order.  Your computer won't be any more powerful,
> no matter how many threads you run...
>

Yes. OK.

But having 250 worker threads instantiated in memory and ready to use the
CPU is surely still better than 50 pre-forked servers?



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Re: Apache2/mod_perl2 an order of magnitude more powerful?

2002-04-24 Thread Ged Haywood

Hi there,

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Nigel Hamilton wrote:

>   250 http server threads running concurrently would be an order of
> magnitude more powerful than my current set up.
> 
>   Have I got this right? or am I missing a big catch?

No and yes in that order.  Your computer won't be any more powerful,
no matter how many threads you run...

73,
Ged.




Apache2/mod_perl2 an order of magnitude more powerful?

2002-04-24 Thread Nigel Hamilton

Hi,

I haven't installed Apache 2.0 yet but I like the sound of 250
worker threads set as the default!

I would love to run 250 Apache children on my linux server but I
just don't have enough memory (50 children max).

250 http server threads running concurrently would be an order of
magnitude more powerful than my current set up.

Have I got this right? or am I missing a big catch?

NIge

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