RemotePi FastCGI
December 3rd, 2014
RemotePi, the remote-control webb-app of my Raspberry Pi media center, felt sluggish. Until I measured the response time with Firefox WebDeveloper/Network. It’s now official: it was sluggish: it took 800 ms to respond. That’s nearly one second.
So it was time to turn the original CGI solution into a FastCGI one. Instead of firing up a new Perl process upon each request, the app keeps running in the background and replies requests in a main loop. I’m using Apache2 mod_fcgid.
The improvement is shocking: File browsing is about 25 ms, requests involving an omxd call take 80 ms. And that’s basically the pure runtime of the omxd command.
FastCGI is fast indeed.
