359477 - Tinderbox should run under mod_perl

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webtools Graveyard :: Tinderbox, enhancement)

Description

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Pie in the sky dreaming time...

Tinderbox kills the CPU fast when lots of people hit it at once.  Most of the time it spends talking to users is regurgitating nearly the same data over and over.  Unfortunately that data changes fairly quickly, so throwing a proxy server in front of it would probably have very little benefit.  It's just small chunks of the data that change at once.

But perl interpreter setup and teardown is what's killing the CPU, and the app could do a lot to cache things internally that don't change much while still keeping the dynamic refresh on the stuff that does if it were running under mod_perl.  The talk this afternoon about all the global variables made me think of it.  I don't expect this to get pulled off anytime soon, but as long as the code's being messed with....  :)

Comment 1

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Tinderbox isn't maintained anymore. Closing.