From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-03-12T09:01:47+09:00
Subject: Re: DRB and threads

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:09:05AM +0900, ahoward wrote:
> > Now, mod_fastcgi handles process creation automatically, even dynamically
> > sizing the pool, and passing requests to individual children (using the
> > fastcgi protocol). This seemed to be ideal. I made a small mod to DRb so
> > that it does not accept() another incoming request until the current one has
> > completed, and hey presto.
> 
> sounds really cool.  how do you prompt mod_fastcgi to spwan a process?  are
> you hitting it via http and the web server or using it directly?

I was originally just hitting it with HTTP; mod_fastcgi spawns a variable
number of processes by default, using an algorithm which creates extra ones
and kills them off which you can tune. But now I think I prefer to have my
pool of a fixed size, so that it's ready to respond to peak load at all
times:

FastCgiServer /var/apache/fcgi-bin/foo.cgi -processes 5

[cgi.html { nonsense }]
> funny, i NEVER use this except for in my example program.  i use amrita for
> all my stuff.
> 
> i love amrita.  anyone used to new C version?

I love amrita and I haven't even used it yet :-) Just from the docs it's
exactly what I've been looking for. Is C version the "unstable" one?

Cheers,

Brian.