[Catalyst] Fastest Perl HTTPD?

[Pedro Melo]

Hi,

On 2006/08/27, at 09:30, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:

>> Axkit2 looks like it'll be a lovely candidate for a production- 
>> quality
>> scalable standalone server, although it's a single-process affair  
>> with
>> optional forking so we'll need to figure out how to manage that
>> appropriately to maximise performance.
>
> Do you (or anyone else) know any benchmark or measurement about ax2
> performance? Speed, resource usage compared to similar Apache2/ 
> modperl2
> installations. Even partial or biased (though better than "I can  
> ctrl-c it,
> so it's good").
> Can it compete with Apache for speed, and in what circumstances?  
> Would be nice
> to know.

I don't. But for me at least, what I'm looking for is a simpler HTTPD  
to power my back-end's with Catalyst apps. Even if ax2 is a little  
bit slower than Apache, it would be a good choice in some situations.

> Why do you think it's scalable? Anything in the architecture? And  
> where do I
> find any documentation about the architecture? The one on cpan.org  
> isn't
> exactly complete.

Well, it uses Danga::Socket and IO::AIO as the building blocks of the  
network core, and those two have proven that they scale pretty  
well... See Perlball and DJabberd (the last one had a test scenario  
with 300k connection if memory serves me right).


> Too me it makes more sense to divide the front end (the light  
> process) from
> the back end (worker processes) to make it easy to distribute to  
> different
> servers, but it's another discussion.

To me also. I'm targetting ax2 as an possible replacement for Apache 
+mod_perl in the backend.

Best regards,
--
Pedro Melo
JID: xmpp:melo at simplicidade.org