Guys, I am currently using mod_perl & XML::Xalan.. which is going well.. (For those of you who answered questions of mine about memory usage, I found some big memory leaks in my code... Doh!... Much better now... )
However, because it's only a little box, and because Xalan (and therefore mod_perl) is not used 24x7 I have set up and apache graceful restart on a crontab, so that mod_perl gets flushed out of use every hour... which keeps our mem usage down, and stops me having lots of big "httpd"'s lying around that don't need to have Perl compiled into them.. Anyhow... I was wondering... is there a simple way to set up a sort of "idle timeout" to get each single httpd to restart itself if two conditions are met: - 1 - It has compiled mod_perl - 2 - The mod_perl aliases have not been accessed for 'x' minutes... What do you guys recon... is crontabbing a restart easier.. is it ill advised? (Ofcourse the restart runs even when you are using mod_perl.. which doesn't really help anyone.. cos then it has to go through the restart lag.. ) Oh well... would love to hear your thoughts, All the best, Jimbo Jim Morrison _____________________________ Technology & Development Partner Isotope LLP 9, 2 Laura Place Bath, Somerset United Kingdom
