Submitter: Stas Bekman 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.