Is there someone who runs Linksql under mod_perl on a dedicated server at Venturesonline?

Michael

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Yes I do - you have a problem with VO?

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No I don´t have problems with VO. I´m very satisfied with my server and the host.

A few weeks ago I had some trouble while trying to run Linksql under mod_perl.

It runs, but my .pl scripts did no longer work under this settings and the server runs out of memory.

I´m not sure, but I have the feeling that´s just a matter of settings.

If you have time, let me know the mod_perl settings of your httpd.conf

Any other idea is also welcome!!

Michael

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Well I'm glad your happy with them, but I did mean a problem with a VO server.

I will email some settings info to you.

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Thanks!!

I received your email. Will give it another try tomorrow.

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No problem - good luck.

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Hi,

I am currently looking for a dedicated server provider to run my links sql directory. How do your find ventures online as a provider?

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This question is better asked at the VO forum. Plenty of people with dedicated servers will give their opinions if you ask. Try here: http://www.venturesonline.com/forums/index.php?

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You might want to remember Gossamer Hosting for your dedicated hosting needs.

In addition to having good support for the servers, they can provide in-house support for Links SQL and the other GT programs you may be using.


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fulcan,

like eraser posted before. Visit VO for informations about hosting and take a look at the GT offer.

I started this thread to get informations about mod_perl settings.

Eraser,

I got it running with your informations, but I noticed a very volatile CPU-Usage and my server runs out of memory a while later.

At the same time I got the information that they had some technical problems at VO because of raid rebuild.

I will test it the next days and will see if my small memory of 256MB is enough for mod_perl.

Michael

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>>256MB is enough for mod_perl<<

That should be fine.

I remember that you (I´m sure it was you) posted that mod_perl needs so much memory and good hardware.

My installation is with static-pages and just searches builds dynamic pages. mod_perl just has effect to dynamic building, isn´t it?

So I wonder that I have so high CPU-Usage and memory usage after I enabled mod_perl.

I have 1.000 visitors each day on this site, when they start searches, they get a result page with 200kb, including 30 images (each image has 3-4kb).

Based on this data I think that approx. 40 visitors each hour should not bring the CPU so high.

Who knows it better?

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Michael Skaide

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I have up to 5000 visits a days with the same 256mb. The memory amount is quite adequate for links SQL running under mod_perl, and runs fine on my system without memory or CPU problems. I would think you have something else there that's running away with your CPU cycles. Do a 'top' from SSH to check for process hogs.

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Just for the record,

I had a sun sparc Ultra-10 (2.5 years old now) running Solaris 2.7 with 128 meg of ram.

I had 34 virtual servers, 12 of them getting daily traffic of at least a moderate degree, with 5 of them getting over 2-300 hits an hour. Several of the servers were getting 20,000 hits a day. Most of the servers were serving static pages, but 2 of 3 high-volume servers were running dynamic pages. All were serving fairly graphics intensive pages, with gigabytes of data transferred.

Load and response was reasonable -- and I was not running mod_perl (at least most of the time).

Bottlenecks occured with SpeedyCGI, and to some degree mod_perl, because so much was being kept compiled in memory. The response of the system, due to the diversity of the scripts being run by the system, across the multiple servers, was better without mod_perl or speedy.

Intel archetecture handles things differently, Windows is different from Unix, and Linux is different than Solaris. But the bottom line is that significant amounts of traffic, script iterations, and search results can be handled by a server.

If there are bottlenecks on your system, you need to look at what is going on, since the volumes indicated are well within the realm of what should be able to be handled. 40 hits an hour, no matter how big, is less than one per minute, which is virtually nothing... 40 simultaneous requests is easily handled.


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Hi,

You want mod_perl to only handle your searches. If you do 1,000 searches but have 200,000 "hits" (including images), then if you just added mod_perl to Apache, you now have a mod_perl server serving 201,000 hits. You really want the dual server configuration outlined at:

http://perl.apache.org/guide/

(our servers come configured that way). ;)

As an alternative, you can use SpeedyCGI, and then you are not using a mod_perl server to serve an html page or an image.

Cheers,

Alex
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