New mod_perl site goes live...

[David Hodgkinson <da...@hodgkinson.org>]

Well, the site's old, but the mod_perl bit of it is brand spanking
new. Thanks to sterling work by Ged Haywood and a little bit of
tweaking by me:

http://www.bargainholidays.com/

Is now mod_perl. Well, the most important script on the site it.

Response times are now roughly ten times better than they were, but
the most impressive thing is that the system load now looks like a
dead person's cardiogram as opposed to that of someone in bad
ventricular fibrillation.

It ate today's lunchtime peak without breaking a sweat.

There are still a couple of CPU wastes in the perl itself but I'll fix
those in due course.

Thanks for a great tool!

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Dave Hodgkinson,                             http://www.hodgkinson.org
Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star           http://www.deep-purple.com
      Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire
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