Submitter: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
Title: Improving scripts and handlers performance under mod_perl
Level: Experienced
Style: Presentation
Orientation: Technical
Duration: 120
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.