ModPerl performance on BSDs

[Jonathan Vanasco <jv...@mastersofbranding.com>]

I'm looking at moving my project from a linux to a bsd environment, for 
security and speed -- bsd seems to be doing real well for web stuff 
right now.

I've been looking mostly at NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD -- has anyone 
had remarkable success or misfortune with modperl2 under these 
environments in regards to speed or running?

ie -- if your environment is slightly slower or faster, i would be 
interested -- but if you tried a BSD and modperl2 was really fast or 
really slow, or just would not compile without you pulling hair out of  
your head, i would love to know

Re: ModPerl performance on BSDs

[ca...@lilydaleairport.com.au]

> I'm looking at moving my project from a linux to a bsd environment, for
> security and speed -- bsd seems to be doing real well for web stuff
> right now.
>
> I've been looking mostly at NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD -- has anyone
> had remarkable success or misfortune with modperl2 under these
> environments in regards to speed or running?


I've been running mp2 under NetBSD for some years now,
and I haven't compared it on similar hardware, but it seems
to run just fine and compile fine etc.  The pkgsrc version
isn't well maintained (last time I checked) so I build it
by hand myself - with no dramas these days.

Carl

Re: ModPerl performance on BSDs

[Dan Brian <da...@brians.org>]

I've been running mp2 in production on FreeBSD 4.9 without issue for 
about 6 months.

On Mar 14, 2005, at 7:28 AM, William McKee wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:15:38PM -0500, Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
>> I've been looking mostly at NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD -- has anyone
>> had remarkable success or misfortune with modperl2 under these
>> environments in regards to speed or running?
>
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> I've been running mp1 under FreeBSD 4.9 for several years without
> incident (was using Apachetoolkit to compile from scratch). Recently
> I've been working on getting mp2 installed under FreeBSD 5.3. Outside 
> of
> some issues with the tests running inside of a jailed process[1], I've
> seen no problems.
>
> I haven't gone into production with mp2 nor have I done any benchmark
> comparisons. However, I have noticed that my web pages can sometimes
> load faster off the live server that sits halfway across the US vs. my
> local Linux server (it's a bit of an unfair comparison as the hardware
> on the production server is far more powerful).
>
> HTH,
> William
>
> [1] Stas, I'm still working on tracking down the issues. Just been
> sidetracked by my work lately.
>
> -- 
> Knowmad Services Inc.
> http://www.knowmad.com

Re: ModPerl performance on BSDs

[William McKee <wi...@knowmad.com>]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:15:38PM -0500, Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
> I've been looking mostly at NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD -- has anyone 
> had remarkable success or misfortune with modperl2 under these 
> environments in regards to speed or running?

Hi Jonathan,

I've been running mp1 under FreeBSD 4.9 for several years without
incident (was using Apachetoolkit to compile from scratch). Recently
I've been working on getting mp2 installed under FreeBSD 5.3. Outside of
some issues with the tests running inside of a jailed process[1], I've
seen no problems.

I haven't gone into production with mp2 nor have I done any benchmark
comparisons. However, I have noticed that my web pages can sometimes
load faster off the live server that sits halfway across the US vs. my
local Linux server (it's a bit of an unfair comparison as the hardware
on the production server is far more powerful).

HTH,
William

[1] Stas, I'm still working on tracking down the issues. Just been
sidetracked by my work lately.

-- 
Knowmad Services Inc.
http://www.knowmad.com