[ic] IC + Apache 2.4

[Jon Jensen]

On Sun, 8 Jul 2018, René wrote:

>>  For most of the sites End Point works with we're using Apache 2.4
>>  running the compiled vlink CGI. Sometimes we also have nginx in front,
>>  serving static files directly and proxying through to Apache for
>>  Interchange and other CGIs.
>
> Are you always running one ic-instance per server, or do you also have 
> cases where you run two different versions of ic?

We have cases where we run two different versions of Interchange on the 
same server, yes.

> I have not yet had the chance to get my fresh perbrew-perl + ic up and 
> running, but the idea would be to try to test and trace down why i get 
> the strange lockups that freezes all ic-pages in all catalogs for a 
> couple of minutes after i update a table that runs on gdbm..
>
> Is there any point to move the locale-db to postgres, or should i try to 
> stick to gdbm? If i understand the idea right, gdbm-tables are loaded 
> into memory, and therefore there is no db-access for each [L] / [LOC] 
> accurance.

I do not believe that GDBM tables are loaded into memory by Interchange, 
but they probably are by the operating system via mmap or at least disk 
caching.

If your site gets relatively low traffic, you'd might as well try loading 
the locale table into Postgres and see how it goes.

Jon


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Jon Jensen
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