Re: Perl/CGI performance issue

Thank you, ladies &/or gentlemen, for the helpful
responses.

Srini wrote:

<<I'm just taking a wild guess here, but if you are
sharing a system with lots of users (that also means
lots of scripts) each script is alloted a specific
time slot within which they have to finish the job, or
else they have to join the queue at the end to
complete the remainder of their operations, quite
similar to the time-sharing systems of yesteryears.>>

Now, that sounds like a good hypothesis because it
would explain why my relatively long scripts take
forever while 'hello world' does just fine.

ml(at)digitaldaze.com wrote:

<<Try mod_perl>>

Well, my SERVER_SOFTWARE environment variable is
Apache/1.3.4 (Unix) mod_perl/1.18 

Rudy Gomez wrote:

<<I had very similar problems, but now that I have
moved to my own dedicated server, every script seems
to execute instantly.>>

This makes sense, and is not inconsistent with Srini's
hypothesis. Oh, the envy!!!

I also bet that the FastCGI extension would make a big
difference by saving the overhead of reinitializing
for every client request. Dedicated server, FastCGI...
I think I know what I need to do. There are some
business considerations involved but that would be
getting OT so I'll shut up now.

Thanks again


       David

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