[mapserver-users] mapserv with fast-cgi

[Martin Kofahl]

Hi,
I have mapserv with fast-cgi support running on a 4-cpu linux box with 
apache2 + mod_fastcgi. I used apaches ab (with 20+ concurrent requests) 
to compare between fcgi and cgi. While mapserv as cgi appeared a couple 
of times on the process monitor using about 4x100% cpu, there was only 
one mapserv process launched by the fcgid deamon using about 1x80% cpu. 
Performance results are accordingly. FastCgiConfig  is taken from 
http://mapserver.org/optimization/fastcgi.html and minProcesses is '2' 
(but I still see one only). Raw data for this test are in tiff format, 
no pgsql.

Is mapserv-cgi expected to be faster than -fcgi?

Martin