Re: high throughput perl server

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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
> 
>