I have many perl scripts which use dbi/dbd. The scripts themselves are not written in mod_perl, and they cannot easily be converted to mod_perl so that is not an option for me right now.

Under heavy load, performance starts to degrade. I would like to gain the benefits of a persistant database connection that Apache::DBI could provide, but am wondering how big of a task this is. The documentation for Apache::DBI make it seem transparent, as if not much work is required.

Before I bother to setup mod_perl, my question, really, is this: Can I install mod_perl and use Apache::DBI for persistant connections WITHOUT converting all of my existing scripts to run under mod_perl? Will the DBI->Connect call in my non-mod_perl scripts just magically get forwarded to Apache::DBI where a persistant connection is being held open for me?

I would be very happy if I could just install mod_perl and Apache::DBI and start seeing things perform better without doing any other work ... :)

In reply to Apache::DBI and mod_perl by JupiterCrash

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