Re: [Ids-devel] IDS performance / mod-perl?

[Jeff <je...@ba...>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:14:27PM -0500, Techwolf wrote:

> My question is how does one get IDS to run under mod_perl? Is it as simple 
> as renaming a couple files to .pl instead of .cgi? Or is there more then 
> that? Like some apache config.

        The program has to essentially be written with modperl in mind.  Basically this means that
global variables should not be used.  Then a small script is written to preload the modules and the
scripts into the apache parent.  If the program is well written, this isn't too challenging.  Modperl
has incredible performance although it does come at a substantial memory cost.


Jeff