From: Michael Garriss <mgarriss@...>
Date: 2003-09-11T02:47:40+09:00
Subject: Re: WEBrick and mod_ruby performance

ahoward wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Michael Garriss wrote:
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>>kwatch wrote:
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>>>You can try 'esehttpd'
>>>http://ghost.math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/esehttpd/en/index.html
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>>>It is very fast as HTTP server and CGI engine,
>>>twice (or more) as fast as Apache + mod_ruby.
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>>Why am I just now hearing about this?!  Ugh.  $40 on an apache book, oh
>>well, now I can put apache on my resume and forget about it.  ;)  Thanks
>>for the link.
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>this looks o.k. - but the ENTIRE webserver is blocked when running ONE cgi
>program.  eg. it's not a forking server.  if you want speed, ease of
>development, safety, and _scalability_ i'd check out using apache/fastcgi/ruby
>- might want to hang on to that apache book. ;-)
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Ah, ugh, dang, and that graph on the esehttpd site was so cool.  Well 
that book is still right next to my monitor, close call. ;)   I wonder 
if I can abstract away the server somehow so I can port my app to any 
server?

I'm curious about using fastcgi with apache.  Right now I'm not using 
cgi.rb at all and just using the Apache::Request class (using my own 
cookie class, etc).  Are there speed benefits of using fastcgi over this 
approach?  If so can you give me a push in the fastcgi direction (a link 
or whatever)?

TIA
Michael