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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Rob Hartill <ha...@lanl.gov> on 1995/08/21 17:16:13 UTC

Re: SLOOOOOOW CGI includes in Apache?

I think I've seen this, but it didn't register at the time...

dave@west.net (Dave) in  comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix wrote:

>I'm now running Apache 0.8.10 under Solaris on a Sparc20, and I'm 
>seeing that CGI's and shell commands executed from a parsed HTML file take 
>about a full second to finish their output, while if they are called in the 
>URL directly they are essentially instantaneous.
>
>Is there a problem with IncludeExec output not getting flushed until the 
>CGI times out?  Rather extreme if you have several includes in the same 
>page.  The following takes about eight seconds:
>
><HR>
><!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/date"-->
><HR>
><!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/date"-->
><HR>
><!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/date"-->
><HR>
><!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/date"-->
>
>Ouch!  My users are starting to complain.
>
>Help?
>
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