Re: recommendations for web/db connection pooling or DBD::Gofer reviews

On Apr 10, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> So, the front-end proxy would have a number of max connections, say  
> 200,  and it would connect to another httpd/mod_perl server behind  
> with a lower number of connections, say 20. If the backend httpd  
> server was busy, the proxy connection to it would just wait in a  
> queue until it was available.

If you read the mod_perl performance tuning guide, it will tell you to  
do exactly this.  These are solved problems for many, many years now.   
The apache mod_proxy really does wonders...