Re: [BENCHMARK] Server Resources

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From: Michael Peters
Subject: Re: [BENCHMARK] Server Resources
Date: 21:16 on 14 Jan 2005

Skylos wrote:

> Also, to compare, I work with an apache 1.3 site that has alot of cgi
> perl script on it.  With the idea that shifting to mod_perl registry
> mode would cause this site to go faster, I modified the configuration.
>  And watched the system load average rapidly climb into the
> multiple-hundreds!  Its a tilt of the hat to BSD that it didn't crash
> right there.  But I was able to kill apache (-9 -9 -9!!) and restore
> the cgi scripts to normal mod_cgi handling.  What happened?  Memory
> usage.  Each copy of the apache had those big cgi scripts loaded in. 
> And this very busy server had ALOT of processes running
> simultaneously.

Did you preload the those scripts at server start-up? This would change 
it so that instead of each apache child having it's own copy of each 
script they would have been placed in shared (copy-on-write) memory.

        -- 
        Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP

[BENCHMARK] Server Resources
sofadmin 20:43 on 14 Jan 2005

Re: [BENCHMARK] Server Resources
Skylos 21:08 on 14 Jan 2005

Re: [BENCHMARK] Server Resources
Michael Peters 21:16 on 14 Jan 2005

Re: [BENCHMARK] Server Resources
Skylos 21:22 on 14 Jan 2005

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sofadmin 21:42 on 14 Jan 2005

Re: [BENCHMARK] Server Resources
Skylos 23:23 on 14 Jan 2005

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Rob Bloodgood 23:35 on 14 Jan 2005

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Perrin Harkins 20:39 on 17 Jan 2005

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sofadmin 01:31 on 16 Jan 2005

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Re: [BENCHMARK] Server Resources
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