[vdr] Re: AW: Re: vdradmin & apache

["Walter, Marcel" <Marcel.Walter@drkw.com>]

You say that apache + mod_php would be complex?
If you compiled vdr then you will be able to compile apache & php a hundred
times ...!!
Itīs _very_ simple!

Mfg
Marcel

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Thomas Koch [SMTP:no-return@gmx.net]
> Sent:	Saturday, February 09, 2002 14:02
> To:	vdr@linuxtv.org
> Subject:	[vdr] Re: AW: Re: vdradmin & apache
> 
> 
> Am Freitag den, 8. Februar 2002, um 16:13, schrieb Matthias Weingart:
> 
> > I think in the current state - vdradmin needs to be running all the time
> > (autotimer!) so a passive (not ever running) cgi script is not possible.
> >  Installing a full apache is overkill for a small system, but with 
> > "top" I
> > see that vdradmin needs 15MB of RAM! (why?) The apache only 3MB.
> > (this was yesterday, today it has 19MB - maybe a memory leak in perl?)
> > [This is perl, v5.6.0 built for i586-linux]
> 
> vdradmin gets the EPG data from vdr, parse this info and store this in a
> internal tree. This needs much time (approx 4 seconds on a p200, 
> depending
> on how much EPG data vdr provides. More channels, more EPG data). 
> vdradmin
> caches this data, because no one is willing to wait 5 or more seconds 
> on a
> request (especially me). This is the reason why vdradmin needs so much
> memmory.
> 
> vdradmin's goal is to be so easy it can be. I think installing Apache,
> setting up mod_perl or mod_php, installing the necessary Librarys
> is overkill and too much complex.
> 
> But, i agree with you, 19MB is a bit heavy. I will look into this.
> 
> Ciao, Thomas
> 
> 


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