From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:55:28 GMT
Subject: Re: kernel.org mirroring (Re: [GIT PULL] MMC update)
Message-ID: <46a038f90612091955i5bdd6e85l749a2f511f27953@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <457AAF31.2050002@garzik.org>

On 12/10/06, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> > P.S. Can anyone post some benchmark comparing gitweb deployed under
> > mod_perl as compared to deployed as CGI script? Does kernel.org use
> > mod_perl, or CGI version of gitweb?
>
> CGI version of gitweb.
>
> But again, mod_perl vs. CGI isn't the issue.

IO is the issue, and the CGI startup of Perl is quite IO & CPU
intensive. Even if the caching headers, thundering herds and planet
collisions are resolved, I don't think you'll ever be happy with IO
and CPU load on kernel.org running gitweb as CGI.

cheers,