[Zope-dev] FastCGI question

[Michael Olivier]

At 07:33 PM 3/23/2001 -0800, sam gendler wrote:
>I haven't used Zope to any significant degree in over a year.  When I
>was last using Zope regularly, FastCGI still had some stability issues,
>which made it difficult to use in a production environment. However, I
>have always felt that FastCGI was the better solution when choosing
>between proxy, pcgi and fastcgi, from a theoretical standpoint.  Can
>someone comment as to the efficacy of using FastCGI to implement an
>interface between my HTTP enabled application and current version of
>Zope, or should I use one of the other solutions.

Hi Sam and others --

I was about to ask the same question myself.  I'm also wondering about 
switching solutions to FastCGI or proxy.  I read on the zope web site that 
zope.org is using the proxy approach.  Can someone in-the-know please shed 
some light?

I'm using PCGI (2.0a4) with ZPublisher and while it's worked reasonably 
well for very small traffic levels, I have recently run into an issue where 
lots of extra pcgi_publisher.py processes get started until the system 
grinds to a halt.  I found two old postings from others (John Eikenberry, 
Craig Allen) about this problem, including this one:

http://classic.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-April/003926.html

... and am wondering if it's been solved and if there's a later release 
(Zope 2.3 stable has pcgi 2.0a4 still).

Thanks!
Michael