nginx, fcgi+perl forking a new process per request ...

[Roger Hoover]

There is a standard C library for FCGI.

http://www.fastcgi.com/drupal/node/5

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Stefan Parvu <sparvu at systemdatarecorder.org
> wrote:

> > A single page load can - and most often does - have more than one
> > request; a webserver gets hits by more than oner person... The higher
> > the traffic the higher the chances of you fork-bombing your own
> > server. It might reach the maximum allowed number of processes, if
> > defined, or whichever maximum size for the PID variable (will-guessing
> > this one)? Nice academic exercise.
> >
>
> sure, makes sense.
>
> > Anyway, you should look for a fastcgi daemon instead of a script;
> > anything that won't spwan 1 process per 1 request. On Debian i use the
> > php-cgi package and a fastcgi script to spawn the daemon on
> > /etc/init.d. It uses 4-6 processes top, it's attached.
> >
>
> Thanks. Probable a fastcgi daemon written in C or Perl. Found
> out the Catalyst::Engine::FastCGI , FCGI::Engine. I would
> stick with the current version nginx-fcgi for time being.
>
> It would be nice to have a std fastcgi daemon written in C,
> part of NGINX. But most likely this is not the purpose of
> the project.
>
> If you guys have any ideas about a simple C based fastcgi daemon
> let me know. Would be cool if would compile across Solaris, Linux,
> FreeBSD.
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
>
>
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