[Tracker-discuss] Roundup installed

[Izak Burger]

Hi all,

A bit more research eventually showed that not only is perchild 
experimental and sometimes non-functional, it was also removed from 
apache2.2.  Several other solutions have been written by others, for 
example:

http://home.samfundet.no/~sesse/mpm-itk/
http://mpm.metux.de/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.telana.com/peruser.php

Two of them keeps a pool of apache processes running under each uid, and 
the other runs as root for as long as it can before dropping privileges 
to the right user.  Each has some problems of it's own.

So I thought a bit more about the idea of keeping a seperate pool of 
processes running under the right uid.  This led me to the idea of 
running a second apache under the roundup uid (that implements the 
separate "pool of processes") and let the frontend apache pass queries 
to it.  Then I figured, if I do that I might as well use roundup-server.

I've changed the configuration now to run roundup-server, with apache in 
front of it.  Apache will serve all static content, and pass the rest to 
roundup-server.  The idea is that we let apache do what it is good(and 
fast) at.

If there is some advantage to be had from rather using mod-python, it 
will be an easy swap.  I already have the config sorted (in 
/home/roundup/apache/apache2.conf).

regards,
Izak