Stas Bekman wrote:
>
> Is it a single script/handler you are testing with?
>
> *all* children at once? You mean you do a single request and it happens?
> The only reason I can think of is parent dirtying its memory pages,
> however I cannot think about a possible way to do this...
>
Yes, I reload VMonitor once, the disk drive chugs for a second, and then
*all* children drop to under 3M shared.
I think the parent process must have been swapped to disk. It only happens
on my home computer (i.e no network traffic), and only after a while
of inactivity. And the disk always chugs for a sec right before it happens.
Sorry for bothering you with this.. I feel sheepish now that it looks like
just a disk swap issue. Is it normal for mod_perl apache processes to
forget their shared memory when they come out of swap?
- Adi
