From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2002-04-15T01:27:29+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-run in httpd.conf : WAS (Re: Switching from PHP to Ruby - Comments Please)

On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 11:45:04PM -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > Ok, just a few more questions still.
> 
> > What is the ruby-run needed for?
> 
> A better question would be, why is the RubyRequire needed?  If you use
> RubyRequire in the httpd.conf, the parent apache process will readin
> in apache/ruby-run.  The advantage of this comes from copy on write
> memory pages.  So long as the child apache processes don't write to
> the memory page where apache/ruby-run is located, they will all share
> the same page of data which can dramatically save on RAM consumption.
> If you ommit the RubyRequire, I'm sure the ruby-object or
> Apache::RubyRun handler will do the appropriate require, however, the
> result of the require won't be cached or "shared" among the other
> child processes.  Sooooo.....  after that long winded response, the
> short response is, "memory management of the webserver."
> 
On a related note, after setting this all up and testing it,
I checked for a running ruby interpretor process, but did
not find one. I kind of expected to see one running all
the time with mod_ruby, unlike cgi or fcgi.


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Jim Freeze
If only I had something clever to say for my comment...
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