>
> I am trying to reduce the size of my child httpd processes. We are using
> modperl, Embperl, DBI and DBD:Oracle. Our current httpd processes quickly
> grow to 22M or so after a database connection. I read in the modperl docs
> that modules can be preloaded into the parent httpd process and the child
> process will then share the code. I setup a startup.pl file to preload
the
> modules I need, but instead of reducing the child process size, all httpd
> processes are now 22M as soon as apache is started.
Yes, of course they are, but now all childs share the same memory, so memory
is taken up only once, while without preloading memory is taken up by every
child. So depending on the number of childs you have, you save a lot of
memory
Gerald
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