Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl asynchronous CGI problems

[Kevin Bong <kbong@kalmbach.com>]

Thanks for your response, Mark.

This is what I was afraid of, because we *do* have a couple thousand users,
and I want to add a script that takes over a second to process.  If we
average about two hits a second, I can't see adding a synchronous cgi that
hangs the server for a second.

I understand that MacPerl is single tasking, but it would be nice if the
glue could 'queue' perl acgi calls, so that it would process all perl
scripts in order one-at-a-time but WebSTAR could merrily serve non-cgi
pages while this is happening.

Kevin

>
>Plain and simple?  No.
>
>MacPerl is a single tasking program.  In other words - it can do one
>thing at a time.  Change your .acgis to be just .cgi and your problems
>should go away.  It does mean that everyone has to wait a bit longer in
>order to run.  But the difference shouldn't be horribly great unless you
>have a couple thousand users.  :-)
>

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