From: Shu-yu Guo Date: 2004-03-03T10:32:23+09:00 Subject: Re: Why ist fastcgi so slow? Ara.T.Howard wrote: >i get around 20 requests per second from a very slow machine, uploading on a >cable connection, to a machine behind some serious pack sniffing software in a >government firewall... you've definitely got something wrong... are you >perhaps using the pure ruby fastcgi version? i seem to recall there is one... > > Yes, there is one, but if you (Ara) are using FCGI#each_cgi, you're using it too, since the C version has no function. I recall that there should be speed hits if you use each_cgi since the CGI object takes a while to initialize, but even then his case sounds awfully slow... -- That's some catch, that Catch-22. Oh, it's the best there is.