We've recently written a mod_perl2 implementation for a site, consisting of a mod_perl+JSON-RPC API backend and mod_perl+TT frontend, 2 separate machines, although not really using many mod_perl features, only the basic $r and $c, for which we could use %ENV instead.

We used mod_perl for caching a large collection of objects in memory on the API side for fast response times.

Colleagues have suggested moving to FastCGI to aid in debugging possible memory leaks and writting tests (unfortunately we don't even have any tests for the modules we use on the backend side).

Would the move to FastCGI make these things any better/easier? We obviously need to get the tests written for our modules we use, but would the switch help with debugging the handlers? All they do is call on the other modules we've written (so far without tests).

Any comments/suggestions welcomed greatly.

Thanks

In reply to mod_perl or FastCGI by Cagao

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