On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 04:33:28PM -0400, Vio wrote: > You're right. Keeping a running Gimp daemon in memory would most > certainly speed things up (for subsequent calls) This worked very well with gimp-perl and mod_perl 10 years ago. It was relatively easy to establish a persistent connection from mod_perl to the gimp-perl server. Just as in database connections, each Apache child maintained a socket connection to gimp-perl. It's just a matter of sorting out the socket permissions, as you have learned. For security purposes, I ran gimp as a different user, but granted permissions on the socket to www-data, and allowed gimp to write to a specific directory in the document root to enable caching of output images. The performance was amazing, even 10 years ago. I'm not sure if gimp-python has a similar server mode, but if it does, I'm sure that mod_python could cache the connections for similar performance levels. Cheers, Tom -- -- Tom Rathborne -------------------------------------------------------------- The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. -- Friedrich Nietzsche _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer