[hunchentoot-devel] Different speed loading images from static apache and hunchentoot handler

[Bob Hutchison]

On 3-Apr-07, at 10:56 AM, Bob Hutchison wrote:

>
> On 3-Apr-07, at 9:31 AM, Andrei Stebakov wrote:
>
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> Could you advise how would I "go straight at the hunchentoot server"?
>
> You'll have something like:
>
>     ProxyPass /cphandler/ http://localhost:4321/cphandler/
>     ProxyPassReverse /cphandler/ http://localhost:4321/cphandler/
>
> in your httpd config file.
>
> Just point your browser at whatever corresponds to http://localhost: 
> 4321/cphandler/

BTW, if this does turn out to be faster, you might consider running  
it without apache at all. I've been doing this for a couple of years  
now (starting with TBNL) though my site is entirely dynamic. Edi has  
been cautious about recommending this, which I understand, but...

Cheers,
Bob

>
> If you are running on a different machine than the server you'll  
> have to temporarily open whatever port you are using (and based on  
> the description of your server below, I'm guessing you *are*  
> running on a different machine (if you aren't then it is definitely  
> time for an upgrade :-))
>
>
>> Also I have a feeling that the more I call the images from the  
>> server the
>> slower it gets.
>
> I pretty sure I've not seen this before.
>
>> I even removed (no-chache) option from the page generation
>> so I thought that having images in caches would speed it up. In  
>> this context
>> I think what Edi says about Hunchentoot switching contexts with  
>> Apache while
>> page generation makes sense. My server is PIII 600 MHz, maybe it's  
>> time to
>> upgrade it.
>
> it should still be sufficient for a website.
>
> Cheers,
> Bob
>
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Andrew
>>
>> On 4/3/07, Bob Hutchison <hutch at recursive.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 30-Mar-07, at 4:24 PM, Andrei Stebakov wrote:
>>>
>>> > I got a folder on my linux box that contains about 240 images  
>>> of font
>>> > preview generated from cl-gd (Thanks, Edi!).
>>> > When I show them from static apache handler it takes  
>>> approximately 30
>>> > seconds. Same thing from hunchentoot static handler
>>> > (create-folder-dispatcher-and-handler) takes about 50 seconds. I
>>> > understand
>>> > it's not a big deal, but still I'd like to know what might get in
>>> > the way. I
>>> > use hunchentoot behind mod-proxy.
>>>
>>> Have you tried going straight at the hunchentoot server? This as  
>>> made
>>> some difference to my stuff in the past. Might give you a better  
>>> idea
>>> where the problem is.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Bob
>>>
>>> > Here are links (first is static apache, second is hunchentoot):
>>> > http://www.greenpixeldesign.com/fonts.html
>>> > http://www.greenpixeldesign.com/cphandler/fonts.html
>>> >
>>> > Thank you,
>>> > Andrew
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