I recently began to experience many lingering mod_perl processes which slow down my tcp connection. I use Apache::Registry for all my mod_perl need. Not the "real" handler. The practical solution I found was to cut down the number MaxRequestPerChild and kill off the processes after a few requests. I understand that Apache::PerlRun has the overhead of compiling each script with a new request. I would like to know whether there is a compilation overhead if I set say MaxRequestsPerChild 1 ?? I was also thinking that because the script is loaded from the disk with each request there will be performance degradation because of disk data ransfer rate will be order of magnitude less than if the script were to remain in the memory all the time. That leads me to think about using very cool RAMFS that comes linux-2.4. What does everyone think about using RAMFS to reduce the performance degradation due to loading script from the disk if there is one. I have over 100 scripts altogether but the total size of them is less than 1 MB and I have plenty of memory. Thanks in advance
