Re: gnome-db [offtopic]

[bob cs csoft net]

Um, already thaught of that. Although the page itself is cgi, most of the
code is in corba objects that are persistant.

On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, NotZed wrote:

> 
> If you are creating a "high performance web environment", you
> DO NOT use cgi.  It just doesn't scale, not even a little bit.
> 
> Especially if that cgi program is doing 'slow' things like connecting
> to databases with every hit.  You really need to pool (i.e. cache)
> database connections and things like that.  e.g. on an sun enterprise
> 5000 (configured with 4x300Mhz UltraSPARC cpu's, 2G ram, and tons of
> fast disk), with oracle 7.3.4 you're looking at about a fixed 20ms per
> (re)connection to the database - and this was a program which was
> already running!  An initial connection is even slower.  So even just
> that (say assuming your code did nothing, and ran as a module which
> connected every time) limits your maximum ops/sec to 50 (ok, of course
> you get more due to parallelism, especially on that sort of hardware).
> Start loading code off disk, and throw in a few system calls, and
> maximum ops/sec drops off very rapidly.
> 
> The easiest way to handle this is probably to use a multi-tier
> architecture - e.g. use an apache module to talk via 'middleware' to
> servers which are persistant (and which can thus maintain certain
> state if they wish).
> 
> Multi-tier architecture makes things like security, and especially
> scalability (e.g. distributed processing) much easier to implement
> too.  Things like 'fastcgi' are basically an example of this kind of
> technology as well.
> 
> CGI serves a purpose, but not in building "high performance web
> enivornments" :)
> 
> Just my 5c :)
> 
>  Michael
> 
> > 
> > Well, I am creating a high preformance web environment called BLADE. Since
> > the web is stateless, a cgi has to load the libs it depends on with every
> > hit. While it is a small hit, when you are getting a fiew hits a second,
> > it adds up. In my case, the fiewer libs the better. I am not calling
> > libgnome slow (on the contrary, it is quite fast).
> > 
> > On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > > Also, the requirement of the gnome library would be another
> > > > preformance hit.
> > > 
> > > How are those libraries a performance hit?
> 
> 
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