[rt-users] Re: speedycgi

[Phil Homewood]

Ambrose LI <acli at ada.dhs.org> via forwarder wrote:
> 1. You can tune SpeedyCGI for max number of scripts, max times
> each script can run, etc; you can't do this with FastCGI.

FastCgiServer /path/to/foo -processes 6

> 2. When the web server exits/dies/crashes, FastCGI processes
> stay in memory, but won't be reused by the web server when it
> is restarted. I.e., if your web server dies a few times, you
> can have dozens of "zombie" FastCGI processes filling up your
> memory.

Oh? Never happened here...

dorfl# ps axwu | grep -c fcgi 
1
dorfl# apachectl stop; apachectl startssl
/usr/local/sbin/apachectl stop: httpd stopped
/usr/local/sbin/apachectl startssl: httpd started
dorfl# ps axwu | grep -c fcgi 
1
dorfl# 

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