Re: high throughput perl server

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When all you're doing is serving static files, most people run out of 
bandwidth long before they hit any limitation of apache.  If you really are 
running into limits on your static files, you would be better off using one 
of these:
Tux, http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/tux/
thttpd, http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/
Perlbal, http://www.danga.com/perlbal/

All are open source and free.

- Perrin

On Thursday 26 May 2005 2:43 am, theshz wrote:
> Have you looked at POE? http://poe.perl.org/
>
> Z.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erik Aronesty" <erik@xxx.xxx>
> To: <modperl@xxxx.xxxxxx.xxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 7:16 PM
> Subject: high throughput perl server
>
> > In order to deal with apache's problems handling a high load, I wrote
> > a trivial pure perl server with few features.
> >
> >   http://www.documentroot.com/code/ppcgid
> >
> > Since it's nonforking, it's not appropriate if your web pages block on
> > IO, or if some of them are much slower than others, etc.
> >
> > But it's blazingly fast for certain kinds of applications.
> >
> > I based on the IO::Select "multiplexing"  code from O'reilly.  It's
> > hastily written and probably buggy, and doesn't support HTTP features
> > like keepalive
> > which could speed it up, and there's probably a zillion things in it
> > that
> > can be sped up.
> >
> > But it's way faster than apache/mod_perl.
> >
> > - Erik