mod_perl invokation valid?

[Charlie Smith <Sm...@ldschurch.org>]

I'm a newbee at this, so please have patience.
 
Question: Even though I have PERL 5.8 installed, we wish to get mod_perl
installed to make use of caching.
Currently, a listing of the %ENV hash indicates that we're running
mod_perl/1.25.   PERL 5.8 is also listed out in the PERL5LIB env variable in
httpd.conf.
 
Is it correct assume we'll see a speed up after upgrading mod_perl?
IF not, what else might need to be done to acheive a performance improvement
with caching PERL. 
 
My configuration  includes:
GCC 2.95, PERL 5.8, DBI 1.3 and DBD::Oracle 1.12, Oracle 9.0.1SunOS 5.8 Generic
108528-12 sun4u sparc SUNW, Ultra-80, Apache 1.3.19
mod_perl/1.25
 
Thanks,
Charlie
1/6/02

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Re: mod_perl invokation valid?

[Perrin Harkins <pe...@elem.com>]

Charlie Smith wrote:
> Question: Even though I have PERL 5.8 installed, we wish to get mod_perl 
> installed to make use of caching.
> Currently, a listing of the %ENV hash indicates that we're running 
> mod_perl/1.25.

Okay, so you have mod_perl installed and now you want to use it.  Take a 
look at the documentation for the Apache::Registry module that comes 
with mod_perl.  That will help you run your CGI scripts under mod_perl.

- Perrin

Re: mod_perl invokation valid?

[Ged Haywood <ge...@www2.jubileegroup.co.uk>]

Hi there,

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Charlie Smith wrote:

[snip,snip]
> assume we'll see a speed up after upgrading mod_perl?

Your question is not clear.  It depends on what you're doing with it.
If you're already using mod_perl then simply upgrading it won't give
you a substantial performance improvement.

Read the mod_perl Guide, you'll find it at the mod_perl home page
http://perl.apache.org and it tells you a lot about performance
tuning and other useful stuff.

> My configuration  includes:
> GCC 2.95, PERL 5.8, DBI 1.3 and DBD::Oracle 1.12, Oracle 9.0.1SunOS 5.8 Generic
> 108528-12 sun4u sparc SUNW, Ultra-80, Apache 1.3.19 mod_perl/1.25

You should upgrade to the latest versions of Apache and mod_perl
(versions 1.3.x and 1.2x, not mod_perl 1.99 which is really 2.0x:)

There have been problems now and again with SunOS but don't let
me worry you about that, it might not happen.

73,
Ged.