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Re: lenny rant



On Tuesday 14 April 2009 07:47:55 Gregor Hermens wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> Am Montag, 13. April 2009 schrieb Marc Haber:
> > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 09:17:30PM +0200, Gregor Hermens wrote:
> > > Am Montag, 13. April 2009 schrieb Hajo Kessener:
> > > > Have a look at apache2-mpm-itk.
> > >
> > > I second that. You can configure a diffferent user/group for each
> > > vhost.
> > >
> > > http://packages.debian.org/lenny/apache2-mpm-itk
> >
> > Is this stable enough to be used in a production environent?
>
> I use itk on a production server with appr. 250 vhosts for about a year.
> Not a single problem...
>


I tested itk a while ago as it seemed interesting but the performance hit is massive. I got in touch with the author and this is what he says:
>The short answer is: It depends.
>
>For static file serving, you'll probably find it markedly slower than
> prefork -- but for static file serving, you should probably have a Squid in
> front anyway. (Either that, or it's "good enough" -- web serving is rarely
> your bottleneck in a usual situation anyway, but it depends on the load, of
> course.) For dynamic content, it's still worse, but since you have a lot
> more overhead in other places, it tends to be less visible. YMMV.


mimo


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