Hi Jay, Perrin, and Geoff, Thanks for your thoughts on this problem.
Jay "yohimbe" Thorne wrote: >For what its worth, I'd recommend KeepAlive Off for almost any mod_perl >deployment. It basically is a waste of memory and a process slot. >Especially >if you put graphics on a separate server. My setup uses a mod_backhand hack for single host accelerating, And I'm using KeepAlive On based on this advice from Theo Schlossnagle. It's been working great for many months. Theo Schlossnagle wrote (on 2/22/2001): >Also, be sure to turn on KeepAlives on the mod_perl server! You will no >longer run out of children and mod_backhand will keep pools of open >connections so that you don't have to reconnect for every request. Perrin Harkins wrote: >Try changing the call >$r->child_terminate() to Apache::exit(). If this seems to work better >for you, let me know and I'll consider changing this in a future release >of Apache::SizeLimit. Geoff wrote: >what about > >$r->headers_out->add(Connection => 'close'); I tried each of these changes in turn. Neither worked to immediately exit the child. I never saw that either of them would exit the child at all but I may not have kept them running long enough. I noticed an odd pattern of behavior. With one of our cgi scripts, and using $r->child_terminate(), the child would always exit immediately. With other scripts, it wouldn't exit. With both Perrin's and Geoff's suggestions from above, that same script would cause the process being used to be changed, but the old process wouldn't exit. We're going to try to figure out what is happening with this and I'll report back if we do. Thanks again for your help! Bob
