[Ids-devel] IDS speed and modperl/fcgi

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

    I think the main "lack of speed" most people are experiencing in IDS is
the amount of time it takes ImageMagick to create the thumbs and the various
image sizes.  The speed at which this operation occurs can only be improved
by a faster CPU and possibly a very small amount by a faster hard drive.
    FastCGI and modperl are used when a site is expecting a tremendous
amount of traffic, perhaps on the order of one dynamic page requested per
second or higher.  That is the point when the script and interpreter startup
overhead starts to load the server down.  Implementing FastCGI and/or
modperl support doesn't make any noteable speed increase to a single user.
It just prevents the system from buckling when you get 1,000 visitors /
20,000 page views an hour.


Jeff