Hi,

I'm trying to get my perl scripts speeds up with nginx. We include quite a few perl modules - so I'm wondering if we can load them into memory, to speed up script requests. Here is a post I've started on Stack Overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33316610/loading-perl-modules-into-memory-for-nginx-to-make-faster/33343357#33343357

Now, while I don't get errors on rebooting nginx, I really don't see that much of a difference in load times.

Before: 896ms "waiting"
After: 845ms "waiting"

Am I mis understanding how the perl_require works? Basically, I want to emulate what you get with mod_perl on Apache (where it loads the modules into memory)

Thanks

Andy

Anyone? Surely there has to be some way of loading the Perl modules into memory on Nginx, so that they are ready for any perl script to use? (like we can do in mod_perl)

We've extensively experimented with this option but without a proper Perl side cgi module this is not going to improve much, your best bet is to use a ramdrive for the whole perl environment and a simple cgi-wrapper to access Perl via fast_cgi, much the same as tcp->php-cgi works. Use a pool (upstream) to prevent blocking.

Basically the problem is shared environments and all the dangers that come with this. Typically Lua is much better suited for this but Lua ain't php or Perl, what's needed to solve this permanently is a Lua API which can expose php, python and Perl code in a non-blocking fashion. We're still experimenting with such API but getting stuck with blocking issues.

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Hi,

Thanks for the response :) That went right over my head! I'll pass it onto my tech friend, and see what he makes of it :)

Thanks again!

Andy