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[Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mikael Jansson wrote:
> Michael Phipps skrev:
> > A normal CGI does a fork and exec() to start the CGI application.
> >
> > FastCGI runs in a loop (think BLooper), waiting for requests. There is 
> > a thin wrapper that your CGI needs, but it is pretty trivial to change 
> > one into the other.
> > The downside of fastcgi is that if you have a memory or handle leak 
> > (db, ldap, whatever), code that runs in a CGI will break under load.
> ... which is basically the same problem you'd run into were you to run 
> the application as a daemon, right?
Yes. FastCGI is a neat piece of software, but it can't fix other people's 
bad code. :-)