[omniORB] Making ORBs in CGI programs

[Dennis Payne]

> >   My question came up regarding the connection from the CGI programs to
> > the router process. There will be tons of requests coming (50-100/sec)
> > and with this 50-100 ORBs are gotten created making a local connection
> > via the 127.0.0.1 shortcut. When the CGI process terminates the
> > connection is thrown away. Can a Linux server bear such a (network)
> > load?
> 
> A better solution might be to use an Apache module, so it can keep the
> connections open all the time.
> 
	I'd have to agree to with Duncan that cgi probably won't do.
Although an Apache module would work, I'd suggest fastcgi (www.fastcgi.com).
We've been using it with omniorb without any problem.

	Dennis Payne
	dpayne@softscape.com