More CGI Stuff

andu undo at cloud9.net
Sat Aug 31 23:18:01 EDT 2002


--On Saturday, August 31, 2002 20:51:31 -0400 Yennie at aol.com wrote:

> Which is very cool stuff!
>
> I just want to point out one difference that I'm trying to obtain,
> however:  *multiple* long running processes with shared memory, and
> everything done  with Metacard! =).
>
> Since I want most of the work to happen in Metacard, its not as valuable
> if I  can only maintain one Metacard process- then the server can only
> handle one  connection at a time. And simply launching multiple copies of
> say,  MetacardCarbon, works- but its a major memory hog. Thus I'm trying
> to work  with scripts, rather than GUI processes. I can spawn 20 long
> running scripts  and it barely requires more memory than 1!
>
> Of course- PHP is still an option with multiple Metcard processes doing
> the  work, its just one more language to throw into the mix.

Wouldn't it be even cooler if there was a metacard module for Apache which 
would allow for all these wonderful things in one easy step?

>
> Brian
>
>
>> FWIW, I believe Pierre Sahores explained a way to use PHP to manage
>> sockets  and enable backend use of MC as a long-running process. I think
>> it's  related to this thread. (Wherever that explanation is in the
>> archives,  maybe Ken Ray would consider adding it to his already
>> excellent Developer  Resources section at http://www.sonsothunder.com !)
>>
>
>



Regards, Andu Novac



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