I am in the process of using CGI::Application under FastCGI.
So far I have tried: 
use CGI::Fast;

while (my $q = new CGI::Fast){
my $app = new MyCGIApplication(QUERY => $q); # this is your CGI::App m
+odule
$app->run();
}

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as proposed at link and link. What I found out is that this approach executes cgiapp_init() and setup() on *every* request (which isn't desireable as I load my templates there, establish caches etc and these steps should run only once!).

My second try was CGI::Application::FastCGI, which gets the flow of execution right (with executing setup and cgiapp_init only once), but seems to have some garbage-collection issues (which also the cpan bugtracker tells me).
As I understand it, this is due to the fact that CGI::Application::FastCGI does not create a new CGI::Application object for every request. To heal this, link suggests doing 
    $self->{__PARAMS} = {};
    $self->header_type('header');
    $self->header_props( {} );

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in cgiapp_postrun() as a kind of garbage-collection. But what it does: it also wipes all my $self->params which I use as constants/configuration throughout the script. Any comments?

At link are talks about establish things like connecting the DB etc (which shoud normally happen in setup() or cgiapp_init() ) outsite the fcgi loop and then enter the Application (which I don't fully understand btw..)

Now, which way is the "CGI::Application way" of doing things and getting it right? Can somebody shed some light and give insight on how to get fcgi working on a script which should go, after an expensive init phase, into a proper runmode-loop.

In reply to CGI::Application under FastCGI (Guru advice needed) by isync

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