** Using WeBWorK **

Debian includes an "apache-perl" binary: (mod-perl statically linked)

and

libapache-mod-speedycgi (apache module to speed up perl scripts by making them persistent)

On a dedicated webwork server, is there any gain in using the above packages?

Thanks, Lars.

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In that WeBWorK2 requires mod_perl, I'll assume that the first question ("is there a gain the Debian apache-perl module") relates to the question of whether a statically linked binary is significantly better than a dynamically linked one. I think the answer to that is that there may be a slight speedup from using a statically linked binary, but that it's not going to be significant.

Obviously going from a non-mod_perl to a mod_perl apache server provides a marked speedup for Perl applications even if the application is only run from the cgi-perl directory instead of the perl directory.

I'm not familiar with libapache-mod-speedycgi. It sounds like something that provides limited mod_perl like functionality without requiring that one put in a full mod_perl server, which has a conspicuously larger memory footprint then a regular one.

Gavin

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