Is mod_php walking on its road?

Steve Chu stvchu at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 19:22:52 MSD 2007


I mean, why mod_perl not blocked?

On 10/24/07, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:14:19AM +0800, Steve Chu wrote:
>
> > What about mod_perl?
>
> There is experimenatl ngx_http_perl_module:
> http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxEmbeddedPerlModule
>
> > On 10/23/07, Manlio Perillo <manlio_perillo at libero.it> wrote:
> > > Steve Chu ha scritto:
> > > > Sorry,all
> > > >     I made a mistake, nginx is using epoll, so blocked I/O will be a
> > > > big problem.
> > >
> > > Not a "really big" problem, since nginx can use multiple worker processes.
> > >
> > > Of course mod_wsgi *should* not be used in the "main" http server, but
> > > it should be used "standalone", as a replacement for a "builtin" server
> > > and behind another nginx proxy if possible.
> > >
> > > With Python this is very effective, since all Python http servers are
> > > written in pure Python and use a thread based model.
> > >
> > > With PHP the builtin server is written in C, and uses a prefork model
> > > (if I'm right) so I don't know is a nginx mod_php is worth the effort.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards  Manlio Perillo
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Steve Chu
> > http://stvchu.org
> >
>
> --
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>
>


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Steve Chu
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