Perl/FastCGI and Windows Server 2008 Performance Issues

vanlaere22 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am an application administrator. We use Numara Footprints, it is an perl based application. I have it installed on a Windows Server 2008, 4 CPU, 8 GB of Ram, the database it connects to is a SQL 2008 server as well. This is a web based application, that uses IIS 7. It also uses FastCGI. Is there any performace tuning that can be done to help the server handle all the perl.exe commands that continually run all day long? I have done some research, and there are options for PHP/FastCGi. I am looking for something similar for Perl. Thanks, Kristen

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Re: Perl/FastCGI and Windows Server 2008 Performance Issues (which?) by tye (Sage) on Aug 22, 2011 at 20:03 UTC
What resource(s) are you running out of? CPU? Physical memory? Or is your main concern latency per request being too high? Also, are you expecting usage to increase over time? FastCGI should already be reducing CPU overhead and latency (similar to what mod_perl would do). It sounds like you already have a platform that could scale across multiple computers; you would just need a front-end to load balance (a reverse proxy or a real load balancing appliance or even just multiple IPs and round-robin DNS in a pinch). - tye	[reply]
Re: Perl/FastCGI and Windows Server 2008 Performance Issues by Anonymous Monk on Aug 22, 2011 at 18:31 UTC
I think "mod_perl" might be the keyword you're looking for.	[reply]
Re: Perl/FastCGI and Windows Server 2008 Performance Issues by ricDeez (Scribe) on Aug 22, 2011 at 23:30 UTC
Have you tried using Helicon Zoo? From the description on their web page it looks like it just may be what you are looking for. It is also free as in "beer". Let me know how it goes...	[reply]