On 25 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 May 2001 23:28:44 +0800 (SGT), Stas Bekman said:
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> > > We're not doing anything with Apache::Registry. Everything is with Perl
> > > handlers. It always seemed to me that the problems described at those locations
> > > were specific to Apache::Registry. So you're saying that if a Perl handler
> > > module falls over for some reason, that child will continue serving the last
> > > content it served, forever? This strikes me as a bad thing.
> >
> > It's quite possible if you happen to create closures in your "dispatch"
> > handler for example. It's a bad thing :)
>
> I sort of had the impression that closures were a good way to leak memory, and
> so avoided them.
Good.
> > > Anyways, all of the possible reasons listed there are not, as far as we can
> > > tell, going on in our code. Everything is 100% OO, nothing is global or
> > > exported, and everything uses strict and warnings. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding
> > > when things actually pass out of scope in a mod_perl environment.
> > >
> > > Since almost all of the availble documentation seems to be about using
> > > Apache::Registry, rather than about writing handlers, it's not always clear
> > > whether things like this necessarily translate to both.
> >
> > I'd switch to a single server mode first thing first. Do you see the same
> > behavior with httpd -X?
>
> Same behavior, yes. Once one handler get a server error, you'll get the last
> succssful content served by that child, repeatedly, forever. Note also that
> this not one handler with lots of different behaviors. It's about 20 handlers,
> based of some shared base modules, but performing rather different tasks.
Can you send us a small handler that reproduces the problem?
Have you tried writing the data to the disk instead of/in addition to
sending it down to the client? Do you see the data written to the disk
(error_log seems to be the best) changing?
Of course continue the debugging under -X.
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