Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 08:06:05 +0100 From: Jamie Paul Griffin <griffin@gnix.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl-threaded Message-ID: <20110524070605.GA1215@think.gnix.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikKUG8KaZiKRF24XtndmN0cjbkzcw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110523202020.GB75878@think.gnix.co.uk> <BANLkTikKUG8KaZiKRF24XtndmN0cjbkzcw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 05:50:39PM -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: > Not necessarily, many cpan modules are either thread unaware/innocuous > or thread safe, though there are exceptions. > I have re-compiled Perl with threads with pre-installed libraries and > never had a problem. > > You will surely know which things fail when they blow-up or leak you > to death, when you use threading of course. Especially long-running > software like mod_perl. But for that, you always have > maxrequestsperchild ;-) > > Now that I mention it, mod_perl would probably need rebuilding IMHO > just to be on the safe side, wherever _that_ is with threads ;-) > > Joking aside, I have scaled tremendously with apache mod_perl + > mod_worker a rare but exquisite high-scale Web software recipe. Hi Alejandro - I did encounter a few issues, rebuilt them all and it's good. Thanks for your reply. jamie
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