[ic] Which is best for performance/functionality mod_interchange or interchange under mod_perl

Jeff Dafoe interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Oct 23 12:11:00 2002


> Does anybody know the relative strengths or weakness of using mod_perl
with
> interchange versus mod_interchange?

    I can think of one.  mod_perl creates these gargantuan apache processes.
Unless you are running multiple servers, one of these monsters will be
forked for every request, static or dynamic.  As an example, the retrieval
of every image on your page will result in the spawning of a 20 meg apache
process.
    With mod_interchange, apache remains normal sized.  The huge interchange
processes are only spawned to process dynamic requests.  You can then
process more concurrent requests in the same amount of memory.


Jeff