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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