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

[Nicolas Boretos]

Alex Rice wrote:
> Has anyone messed about with Perl Mapscript and the CGI::MiniSvr module?
> 
> Running a CGI perl script and loading the CGI perl module and the 
> Mapscript perl module has a lot of overhead and will noticeably slow you 

Hi,

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.....


anyway,

nicolas boretos

> - load the mapscript module (only once).
> - load the CGI module (once).
> - read the mapserver .map file (once)
> - create some other mapserver objects (once)
> - fork the mini server.
> - then handle a bunch of requests from a particular client on port xxxxx.
>     ->tweak mapserver objects
>     ->perform queries
>     ->generate maps
>     ->etc
> - timeout after a short while, how long depending on the server load.
> 
> OK, I haven't actually got it working yet, but I thought it was neat 
> enough to share.
> 
> Alex Rice, Software Developer
> Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
> alex_rice at arc.to
> alrice at swcp.com
> 
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