From dmagnuszewski at yahoo.com  Thu May 20 08:19:29 2010
From: dmagnuszewski at yahoo.com (Daniel Magnuszewski)
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 08:19:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Perl Survey 2010
Message-ID: <117165.50519.qm@web33304.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Take some time to complete the Perl survey:

http://blogs.perl.org/users/holy_zarquons_singing_fish/2010/05/the-perl-survey-2010-is-ready-for-you-to-complete.html

Thanks!

-Dan

From eye at buffalo.edu  Tue May 25 07:05:10 2010
From: eye at buffalo.edu (Eye, Kevin)
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 10:05:10 -0400
Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Temporary Position Available
Message-ID: <C8215157.6177%eye@buffalo.edu>

FYI, there is a temporary (6-month) full-time Perl + PHP web development and
support position available in my office at UB (north campus).

 - Kevin

-- 
Kevin Eye
Web Applications Developer
University Communications
University at Buffalo
330 Crofts Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260
eye at buffalo.edu
phone (716) 645-4579


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From joshpauljohnson at gmail.com  Tue May 25 09:23:31 2010
From: joshpauljohnson at gmail.com (Joshua Johnson)
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 12:23:31 -0400
Subject: [Buffalo-pm] mod_perl and mass virtual hosting
Message-ID: <AANLkTim6oBHmFjyhguleZPSsdt2FUKzH76alCbQMLOeW@mail.gmail.com>

Hello all,

I have a question on using mod_perl to configure apache for many virtual
hosts. My problem is the high load on the apache server. I decided to go
with mod_perl to configure apache and here are the reasons (if I should be
doing this a different way, please say so. I'm open to suggestions).:

The company I work at has ~13,000 customer domains. There is a database
where these domains are configured. Some of them are "standard" packages and
simply have a document root where customers upload pages. Some of the
domains make proxy requests to another site. And still others make a proxied
rewrite from "/" to "some random url that is stored in the db". Some
redirect to another url. There are about 20 other such configurations.

I used mod_perl to load all of this up at startup and it worked beautifully.
I originally thought that I would be able to dynamically setup VirtuaHost
sections as requests came in for domains (maybe they were freshly added to
the db or the record updated). But I found you can't really do that so I
have to restart for changes to take effect. Either way, I'm very happy with
how easy and clean mod_perl has made all of this.

But the load on apache runs anywhere from 0.50 to 3.00 on a dual cpu server.
Response doesn't seem slow (except for right after an apache restart) but
I'm worried that I'm doing something fundamentally wrong. There is a
significant amount of proxying going on so I set "ProxyReceiveBufferSize
16384" but that doesn't seem to have changed too much. Are there any initial
thoughts anyone has? Has anyone run into something similar? Should I be
going about this a different way?

Related: and would it be possible to add config on-the-fly? $r->add_config()
Won't let you add VirtualHosts because it operates as though in a <Location>
directive.

I guess I'm just looking for thoughts in general. I've been tinkering with
this for about 2 weeks now.

Thanks,
Josh J
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From dmagnuszewski at yahoo.com  Tue May 25 12:44:36 2010
From: dmagnuszewski at yahoo.com (Daniel Magnuszewski)
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 12:44:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Buffalo Perl Mongers Under New Leadership
Message-ID: <256232.47893.qm@web33308.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Mongers,

With my Perl Foundation duties and after a few years of sporadic meetings and lackluster leadership (from yours truly), I've handed over the reigns of BPM to Mike Canzoneri. He has given me a good deal of crap about "when our next meeting will be", so I figured that was a good sign. I'll be working over the next few days to get things officially moved over, but from now on, consider him responsible for organizing meetings and getting this group off the ground again.

Good luck Mike!

-Dan

From jkeen at verizon.net  Tue May 25 20:13:28 2010
From: jkeen at verizon.net (James E Keenan)
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 23:13:28 -0400
Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Buffalo Perl Mongers Under New Leadership
In-Reply-To: <256232.47893.qm@web33308.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <256232.47893.qm@web33308.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <ADAB0E7F-C0EC-493A-B59D-9CF3E1A28BC3@verizon.net>


On May 25, 2010, at 3:44 PM, Daniel Magnuszewski wrote:

>  I've handed over the reigns of BPM to Mike Canzoneri. He has given  
> me a good deal of crap about "when our next meeting will be",

I would encourage you to have some semblance of a regular schedule of  
meetings (frequency being less important than regularity), because  
that better encourages out-of-town Perl hackers to just drop in.

jimk