http://norman.walsh.name/2005/12/02/fastcgi 8 156 2005-12-02T10:09:43-05:00 $Date: 2005-12-05 12:25:41 -0500 (Mon, 05 Dec 2005) $ Norman Walsh 2005 Norman Walsh I've switched to FastCGI for several features and I've turned off trackbacks. You aren't supposed to notice. [Update 5 Dec 2005: but I sure did!] Steven Levy There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. [Update 5 Dec 2005: CPU usage is down by a factor of about five. That puts me well under the limit and should get me off the evaluation server.] I've been getting periodic admonitions from my hosting company for excessive CPU usage. I think their definition of “excessive” is a little stingy, but I also think that starting four separate Perl processes for each page served could be considered abusive, so I'm trying to do something about it. I've switched to FastCGI for those processes, which should help a lot. The scripts themselves aren't doing very much, so I really think it was the overhead of initializing Perl that was causing the problems. In any event, you're not supposed to be able to tell, but if something looks broken, please let me know. In particular, the comments and the folksonomy tag stuff are now being handled by FastCGI scripts. I've also completely removed support for TrackBacks. That gets all the grotty RDF in HTML comments out of the pages and completely removes one process. There were a few pages with TrackBacks, so if you really think they're important, let me know and I'll consider putting them back with FastCGI.