J. Bakshi wrote: > The cgi in debian squeez terribly slow down apache. Is there any > apache module which can speed up the cgi ?
I know you are already aware of FastCGI. A lot of large high performance sites use FastCGI and it should be as fast as anything. I tend to think of CGI as a quick and dirty way to program for the web. It has been around forever and the applications that use it are targeting reliable functionalty not performance. It isn't meant to be fast. It isn't really slow either. It is was really just a good enough interface. It works. These days I set up a lot of Apache reverse proxies to dedicated servers. Mostly because of the accidents of the way things have evolved. But they work out fairly well anyway. These are either PHP or Rails sites. Of course Rails pretty much requires a Passenger standalone server and a reverse proxy to it. Before Passenger it was Mongrel. In any case, the methodology does work and you can even load balance things if you want. So a few questions... What are you trying to do? What performance numbers are you seeing now? What are your target numbers? How much time is being spent in your application code versus in the application framework? Bob
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