Re: RGW's apache and mod_fastcgi

[Ken Dreyer <kdreyer@redhat.com>]

On 01/06/2015 12:14 PM, Ken Dreyer wrote:
> There's the question of Unix Domain Sockets support. In Yehuda's testing
> with mod_proxy_fcgi, Unix Domain Sockets (UDS) provide a lot better
> performance in comparison to TCP sockets. Apache's UDS support shipped
> in Apache upstream version 2.4.9, but both RHEL and Ubuntu have versions
> older than this. RHEL 7 has httpd 2.4.6, and Trusty has 2.4.7. My
> intention is to request that the Ubuntu apache2 maintainers to backport
> UDS to their Trusty package, similarly to what Red Hat intends to ship
> in RHEL 7.1.

To follow up on this: Apache's mod_proxy UDS support is now present in
the httpd-2.4.6-19 package in RHEL and CentOS. I've opened
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apache2/+bug/1411030 to
request the Ubuntu package maintainers backport UDS support for Trusty's
Apache 2.4.7 package.

- Ken