I'm very interested interested in learning more about this, also. How well does it scale? My experience with FastCGI is that it can lend performance improvements, but it's often at considerable cost in terms of memory. Does the FCGI handle all the scripts or only key performance-sensitive ones, like opac-search.pl?

Clay


On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Brendan Gallagher <info@bywatersolutions.com> wrote:
Hi All -

Friday evening here (west coast USA), Saturday evening in New Zealand.  Chris Cormack was showing quite a few of the developers that hang out in the IRC #koha channel - his testing database of koha - fed through nginx and FastCGI.

I was absolutely amazed at the speed that pages from the opac were being delivered and watching some of the tests with speed comparisons between apache and nginx. I want to learn more. So, I would like to propose or maybe ask chris - if he would schedule a time that he could demo or even give a tutorial on nginx and FastCGI on the IRC channel (which is a good medium because those who can't make it will be able to read the logs).  I am hoping that others get encouraged and want to investigate the possibilities.

So, If you're interested in this please let me/the list know and I'll bug chris to set up a time to give a tutorial.

Cheers,
Brendan

Of course I'd like to encourage as many people to attend (it's surprising how much I've learned through osmosis)

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