Re: [cobalt-users] php resources compared to perl

[Kingsly John <kingslyj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Mez wrote:

 |I have a customer who has a dedicated Raq3 just for his forum on
 |website - which is extremely busy His forum is using perl (cgi) and
 |the perl scripts running on the server are using 98.9% CPU resources
 |at times, running the load on the server extremely high 20.0+ at
 |times, which is resulting in an obvious decrease in the speed of his
 |forum, and is causing hell on the server - everything seems to lockup
 |and die, and have to reboot to get it all back

Either something is really wrong with his perl scripts... or they load is
really really high.

 |i was wondering if he changed his forum to a mySQL/PHP based one,
 |would this put less strain on the RaQ3's CPU?

If his perl scripts are also storing the data in a mysql database.. then
not much of an improvement.

But if the perl scripts use text/html files... then I think you'll
definitely get a better performance by switching to a database driven
solution

Kingsly