OR052: Improving script performance under mod_perl

Day: Thu 
Time: 9:00pm 
Session chair: None assigned 
Duration: 120 minutes 
Style: Tutorial 
Categories: Apache, Performance, Perl 
Speaker: Stas Bekman 

Abstract: 

This tutorial will explain performance improvement tips: persistent DB
connections, cached DBI statements, reducing memory usage by deploying
shared memory, module preloading techniques, avoiding importing of
variables and global variables in general, forking and subprocess
overhead, memory leakages detection and prevention, tuning Apache
configuration directives for best performance by benchmarking the
scripts, object method calls vs. functions, sending compressed HTML,
performance of print calls and buffer flushing.