thank you stonecolddevin & sundialsvc4.
You inspired me to look at other options, and I decided to load test all of them with a simple script that connects to a MySQL database to select some UTF8 data, and return it.
I did the test twice. I included a big Perl module (~650KB) in the second test to check if the compilation phase makes sense.
All of the configurations properly returned the UTF8 text.
I did the test on an 8-core Intel 3770 with 16GB of RAM (which was not a bottleneck). OS: FreeBSD 10.0.
I'm curious to hear about what your opinion is of the below results. I find the number of Apache 2.4/FCGI too good to be true, but could not find any errors. Maybe somebody can replicate the test?
100 concurrent requests with ~10KB script:
Requests Correct Requests Error AVG_msec
Apache 2.4/FCGI 202510 0 14
Apache 2.4/FastCGI/Plack 25584 0 116
Plack standalone 17012 0 175
Apache 2.2/mod_perl 1828 1128 185
100 concurrent requests with ~650KB script:
Requests Correct Requests Error AVG_msec
Apache 2.4/FCGI 55697 0 52
Apache 2.4/FastCGI/Plack 13971 0 213
Plack standalone 13042 0 228
Apache 2.5/mod_perl 1689 0 217
See here the used scripts, and configuration.
Apache/FCGI script
#!/usr/bin/perl
# added to httpd.conf:
# LoadModule fcgid_module libexec/apache24/mod_fcgid.so
# <IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
# AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
# </IfModule>
#
# Load testing is done with the following command:
# http_load -parallel 100 -seconds 30 ./URLs.txt
use FCGI;
use DBI;
use Encode;
$| = 1;
binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";
my $request = FCGI::Request();
while($request->Accept() >= 0) {
my ($dbh,$select,$body,@row);
binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";
$body = "Content-type:text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n\r\n";
$body .= '<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="te
+xt/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body>';
$dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:database=testdatabase:host=<hostn
+ame>:<port>:','root','<password>',{mysql_enable_utf8 => 1}) or die '
+Could not connect'; # connect to the database
$select = $dbh->prepare('SELECT testvalue FROM utf8test');
$select->execute;
while(@row = $select->fetchrow_array) {
$body .= "$row[0]<br>\n";
}
$body .= '</body></html>';
$body = encode_utf8($body);
print $body;
}
Apache/FastCGI/Plack script
#!/usr/bin/env plackup -s FCGI
# lines added to httpd.conf:
# LoadModule fastcgi_module libexec/apache24/mod_fastcgi.so
# FastCgiExternalServer /directory/fcgiplack.fcgi -socket /tmp/fcgi.so
+ck
# Alias /myapp/ /directory/fcgiplack.fcgi
#
# plack command:
# plackup -s FCGI --listen /tmp/fcgi.sock /directory/fcgiplack.fcgi
#
# URL used: http://<hostname>/myapp/
use FCGI;
use DBI;
use Encode;
$| = 1;
binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";
my $app = sub {
my ($env,$dbh,$select,$body,@row);
$env = shift;
$body = '<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="tex
+t/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body>';
$dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:database=testdatabase:host=<hostn
+ame>:<port>:','root','<password>',{mysql_enable_utf8 => 1}) or die '
+Could not connect'; # connect to the database
$select = $dbh->prepare('SELECT testvalue FROM utf8test');
$select->execute;
while(@row = $select->fetchrow_array) {
$body .= "$row[0]<br>\n";
}
$body .= '</body></html>';
$body = encode_utf8($body);
return [200,['Content-Type' => 'text/html', charset => 'utf-8'],[$b
+ody]];
};
Plack standalone: the same script as Apache/FastCGI/Plack
The command that I used to run it: perl ./fcgiplack.fcgi &> fcgiplack.log &
Apache/mod_perl:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use DBI;
use Encode;
$| = 1;
binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";
main();
sub main {
my ($dbh,$select,$body,@row);
binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";
$body = "Content-type:text/html; charset=utf-8\r\n\r\n";
$body .= '<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="tex
+t/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body>';
$dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:database=testdatabase:host=<hostn
+ame>:<port>:','root','<password>',{mysql_enable_utf8 => 1}) or die '
+Could not connect'; # connect to the database
$select = $dbh->prepare('SELECT testvalue FROM utf8test');
$select->execute;
while(@row = $select->fetchrow_array) {
$body .= "$row[0]<br>\n";
}
$body .= '</body></html>';
#$body = encode_utf8($body);
print $body;
return 1;
}
SQL script to create the used database:
/* MySQL 5.6 */
CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `testdatabase` /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTE
+R SET utf8 */;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `utf8test` (
`testvalue` char(20) DEFAULT NULL
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
/*!40000 ALTER TABLE `utf8test` DISABLE KEYS */;
INSERT INTO `utf8test` (`testvalue`) VALUES
('????'),
('???????'),
('?????????'),
('Cetina'),
('Türkçe');
Initial post with title: New version of Mod_perl
Dear respected Perl monks,
I have a mod-perl site that I want to continue using, but my distro doesn't distribute the mod-perl package anymore because there is none available that works with Apache 2.4. It turns out that the loyal mod_perl development team cannot release a compatible version due to a lack of testers.
Can somebody help by assisting them in submitting a bug report?