Hi All,
Can anyone tell me (from their own experience or otherwise) whether or
not there is a noticeable performance difference between running RT
under FastCGI vs mod_ssl?
Thanks,
Mick
“MS” == Mick Szucs mick@onramp.ca writes:
MS> Can anyone tell me (from their own experience or otherwise) whether or
MS> not there is a noticeable performance difference between running RT
MS> under FastCGI vs mod_ssl?
You’re comparing apples to chickens.
At 08:49 AM 4/29/2003, Mick Szucs wrote:
Hi All,
Can anyone tell me (from their own experience or otherwise) whether or
not there is a noticeable performance difference between running RT
under FastCGI vs mod_ssl?
mod_ssl doesn’t run cgi programs it is for running a secure web server
ie if you wanted to use RT on an ssl aware apache server you would have to
have both
FastCGI and mod_ssl.
I think you may be thinking of mod_perl not mod_ssl.
John
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Can anyone tell me (from their own experience or otherwise) whether or
not there is a noticeable performance difference between running RT
under FastCGI vs mod_ssl?mod_ssl doesn’t run cgi programs it is for running a secure web server
ie if you wanted to use RT on an ssl aware apache server you would have to
have both
FastCGI and mod_ssl.I think you may be thinking of mod_perl not mod_ssl.
Right … mod_perl. Sorry 'bout that folks, hadn’t consumed the
appropriate amount of caffeine prior to posting 
Thanks,
Mick
I am also very interested in learning whether there are any performance /
speed advantages in using FastCGI instead of mod_perl with RT2 or RT3.
Thanks
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On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 13:36, John Gedeon wrote:
Can anyone tell me (from their own experience or otherwise) whether or
not there is a noticeable performance difference between running RT
under FastCGI vs mod_ssl?mod_ssl doesn’t run cgi programs it is for running a secure web server
ie if you wanted to use RT on an ssl aware apache server you would have to
have both
FastCGI and mod_ssl.I think you may be thinking of mod_perl not mod_ssl.
Right … mod_perl. Sorry 'bout that folks, hadn’t consumed the
appropriate amount of caffeine prior to posting
Thanks,
Mick
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I am also very interested in learning whether there are any performance /
speed advantages in using FastCGI instead of mod_perl with RT2 or RT3.
Thanks
Hillary
From: Mick Szucs [mailto:mick@onramp.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 12:44 PM
To: John Gedeon
Cc: ‘rt-users@lists.fsck.com’
Subject: Re: [rt-users] FastCGI vs. mod_perl (not mod_ssl)
Can anyone tell me (from their own experience or otherwise) whether or
not there is a noticeable performance difference between running RT
under FastCGI vs mod_ssl?mod_ssl doesn’t run cgi programs it is for running a secure web server
ie if you wanted to use RT on an ssl aware apache server you would have
to
have both
FastCGI and mod_ssl.I think you may be thinking of mod_perl not mod_ssl.
Right … mod_perl. Sorry 'bout that folks, hadn’t consumed the
appropriate amount of caffeine prior to posting
Thanks,
Mick
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I think the answer will be a resounding “maybe”.
Here are the issues as I see them:
- are you running RT on its own private instance of apache?
- are you on a dedicated host just for RT?
- how busy is your RT web interface? that is, how many people are
processing tickets simultaneously?
I think the main thing is issue 1. If you’re running a private
mod_perl apache for RT, then you have little advantage to running
FastCGI. About the only thing I can think is that FastCGI may do some
buffering to free up the perl process to handle another request, and
that will bring into play issue 3. If you’re not a very busy web
site, then it doesn’t matter that the process was freed up for another
request since there most likely won’t be one waiting to run.
If you’re running a single apache to handle a bunch of services, then
you’re likely to benefit with FastCGI (or SpeedyCGI) since only the
heavy-weight RT requests will go thru the perl interpreter, not every
single request.
The mod_perl tuning document (included in mod_perl) would be worth a
good read. Just think of the Fast/SpeedyCGI setup as moral equivalent
to the mod_proxy based front/back end setup to mod_perl. RT doesn’t
use any of the Apache handler hooks provided by mod_perl, so there is
nothing lost by eliminating it.
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