On Thu, 10 May 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
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> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Issac Goldstand wrote:
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> > I was just wondering- where exactly is the Perl interpreter in
> > mod_perl 1.25 (for Apache 1.3) and where will it be in mod_perl 2
> > (Apache 2.0)? I assume in Apache 1.3 it's in shared memory, but I
> > want to double check...
>
> This depends strongly on how your platform works. On Unix and friends,
> the Perl interp is in each Apache process. However, the various interps
> may actually reside in the same physical memory on your computer, because
> of a kernel feature called copy-on-write. Look it up on Google if
> interested.
You may also try to look at my attempt to explain this:
http://perl.apache.org/guide/performance.html#Sharing_Memory
For 2.0 you want to read:
http://perl.apache.org/~dougm/modperl_2.0.html#perl
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