[rt-users] Apache memory usage

[Jesse Vincent]

Actually, there _is_ a fastcgi/cgi handler, mason_handler.fcgi.  It should
work just fine, save the RT logo in the corner of the page.

	Jesse


On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:56:50PM +0200, Wim Godden wrote:
> So there's no way to use RT without using the webmux or without using
> mod_perl (through normal perl usage or something similar) ?
> I need to run it on a production server. It doesn't matter if RT doesn't
> run very fast, but I can't spare the extra resources at all.
> 
> I'm running it on RedHat Linux 6.2 with kernel 2.4.5, compiled with the
> latest GCC.
> 
> Vivek Khera wrote:
> > 
> > >>>>> "WG" == Wim Godden <wim at godden.net> writes:
> > 
> > WG> I've noticed that this line increases Apache's memory usage by 8-10MB :
> > WG> PerlRequire /usr/local/rt/bin/webmux.pl
> > 
> > WG> Isn't there some way to avoid using it ???
> > 
> > No; mod_perl is a very heavy weight add-on to apache, especially when
> > you pull in your application for maximal performance.  If you don't
> > need mod_perl for your normal web serving, then you are better off
> > running a seperate instance of apache with mod_perl dedicated to RT.
> > I run a separate apache on port 8099, for example.
> > 
> > I'm attaching a copy of my httpd.conf file that does this on my
> > development server.
> > 
> > As for your other problem of core dumps, this is usually an indication
> > of some mismatch in your compile options of perl and apache.  What OS
> > and compiler are you using?  If you're on solaris, be sure to build
> > perl to use the system malloc, since that's what apache uses.  Also,
> > be sure to compile both with the same large files setting.  This is
> > all detailed in the mod_perl docs.  If you're not on solaris, then I'm
> > not sure what the problem may be off hand.
> > 
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