[Catalyst] Re: memory usage of mod_perl process

[Bill Moseley]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:37:24PM -0000, Peter Edwards wrote:
> For comparison, I'm using DBIx::Class across 15 tables and a really simple
> hand-rolled MVC (not Cat) for a medium volume site. It gives 'top' lines
> like:
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 21495 apache    15   0  203m  43m 6188 S  0.0  4.5   0:01.46 httpd
> This can handle over 300 requests/sec with 1GB memory on an x86_64 single
> processor.

300/sec from the application server?  That's impressive.  I'm happy
when I see a see a tenth of that.  Are you hitting the database very
hard?  Complex joins?  Are your pages very complex?

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Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org