From: Andreas Schwarz <usenet@...>
Date: 2004-03-02T00:24:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Why ist fastcgi so slow?

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> On 29 Feb 2004, Andreas Schwarz wrote:
> 
>> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>> > On 29 Feb 2004, Andreas Schwarz wrote:
>> > 
>> >> Hi,
>> >> 
>> >> I am using mod_fastcgi and ruby 1.8 with the following example script:
>> >> 
>> >> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
>> >> require 'cgi'
>> >> require 'fcgi'
>> >> FCGI.each_cgi do |cgi|
>> >>   cgi.out{ "Test" }
>> >> end
>> >> 
>> >> This is extremely slow, I get exactly 1.00 requests per second (measured
>> >> with ApacheBench). But why?
>> > 
>> > what is the name of the file?  foo.cgi or foo.fcgi?
>> 
>> foo.rb, and yes, it is executed by mod_fastcgi.
> 
> hmm.  can you see it running with 'ps -elf'?? 

Yes.

> can you show the assoc
> httpd.conf sections? 

I only added "AddHandler fastcgi-script" to my .htaccess.

> the reason i ask it that this performance seems only
> explainable if the script we firing up the ruby interpreter each time...

Even then it would be much faster.