Re: Replacing mod_prewrite with a PerlTransHandler

[Tom Mornini <tm...@infomania.com>]

On 15 Nov 2000, David Hodgkinson wrote:

> Geoffrey Young <gy...@laserlink.net> writes:
> 
> > Perhaps that would make for a good talk ;)
> 
> mod_rewrite recovery?
> 
> Ok seriously then, we're proposing replacing a lite apache and
> mod_rewrite with a slightly heavier, but presumably highly shared
> mod_perled apache at the front end.
> 
> Measurements anyone?

Perhaps, as others have suggested, mod_backhand makes this moot.

If not, then I can tell you that on Linux, I was able to make a
light-weight front-end that was 1/3 the RSS of a mod_perl backend without
any modules loaded. Adding modules would make the back-end even heavier.

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