[Catalyst] Running multiple instances on an application

[Matt S Trout]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 01:24:22PM +0100, Christian Lackas wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
> 
> I would like to have multiple (20-50) instances of a Catalyst
> application running using FastCGI. Since this would result in quite a
> few preforked processes, I wondered if it is possible to just use one
> set of FastCGI processes and have different config files for different
> domain names.  In the configuration I would then have the connect string
> for the different database, local folders, etc...

Not out of the box but with ACCEPT_CONTEXT on your model (see
Catalyst::Component::InstancePerContext for a nice wrapper for this) it
shouldn't be too difficult.

> Can I re-load a config file at the very beginning of request handling?
> And does a Catalyst::Model::DBIC re-connect for every request or keep
> the connection open for the life-time of the process?

Lifetime of the process by default but that's because the DBIC $schema
lasts the lifetime of the process. If you have your own per-context stuff
then you can control the lifetime however you like.

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