On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 01:55:50PM -0400, Philippe M. Chiasson wrote:
> Hi, I recently upgraded our servers to mod_perl 1.24.1 so I decided to
> give DSO mod_perl a try. And it now works perfectly, even with our perl
> modules implementing core httpd configuration directives (Wich was broken
> under DSO until 24.1)
>
> So, I decided to start playing with restart/graceful too, thinking that DSO might
>solve
> the problems of cleanly restarting a mod_perl server without loss of service...
>
> Here is a bit of top while restarting my server a few times.... :
[....]
I've found that mod_so combined with Perl's dynamic loading causes this memory
leakage.
I ended up compiling apache without mod_so (i.e. all modules compiled in static, no
DSO) and
I do not see this memory leakage at all.
> And everything apparently behaves fine and keeps on working, but my main question is
>where is the 12Mb that adds to
> each process on restart comes from ? What is hapenning ?
>
> I know these issues have been brought before in the case of statically compiled-in
>mod_perl, but doesn't restarting the
> server freeing libperl.so and re-loading it freshly ?
>
> Any information would be more than welcome ...
>
> ## My version info is :
> Redhat 6.2 running on a i386 Linux 2.2.17
>
> Server version: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix)
> Server built: Oct 18 2000 14:00:36
>
> perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3)
>
> mod_perl 1.24.1
>
> /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -l
> Compiled-in modules:
> http_core.c
> mod_so.c
>
>
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> /* * Hash table gook.. */
> -- Linux 2.4.0-test2
> /usr/src/linux/fs/buffer.c
>
> perl -e '$$=\${gozer};{$_=unpack(P26,pack(L,$$));/^Just Another Perl
>Hacker!\n$/&&print||$$++&&redo}'
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Paul Lindner
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Red Hat Inc.
