[mapserver-users] Mapscript and Perl CGI::MiniSvr module

Alex Rice alex_rice@arc.to
Fri, 9 Aug 2002 07:34:26 -0600


On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 05:21  AM, Nicolas Boretos wrote:
> This sounds  similar to what I am doing by using the tclmapscript 
> module inside the tclwebserver.
> I load the mapscript module into the interpreter that the httpd 
> process also runs in. It seems faster than the mapserv cgi for 
> the basic things I am doing, and requires very little overhead.
>
> A potential bottleneck that I see is that longer running db calls 
> would block the webserver. To this end we are looking into 
> threading, or at least to move potential db requests back into 
> the mapserv.cgi.....

Interesting! In this scenario, are you using Apache as well, or 
is the main web server the tclwebserver? Just trying to figure 
how the bottleneck would happen with db calls blocking the 
webserver.

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
alex_rice@arc.to
alrice@swcp.com