All this talk about memory leakage has got me to wondering more about a problem I've noticed with mod_perl ever since I started using it: the more times you gracefully restart, the more memory you lose.
This doesn't seem to be a result of the type of leakage that's being discussed in the other thread (which refers more to leakage and growth as the child runs normally) but is on such a large scale that I can only conclude that it's much more fundamental. For example, here's what an httpd process looks like having just restarted it from scratch: httpd 9063 0.0 6.6 19212 17020 ? S 11:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -DSSL and here's what happens after one graceful restart: httpd 9092 0.0 9.2 25836 23644 ? S 11:27 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -DSSL Where did those 6.5 Mb go? This is without making any requests from the server, so my mod_perl code isn't even being run, beyond initialization. (I use a PerlRequire to load a bunch of libraries at startup.) Are there any FAQs that address the reason for such large leakage? Or is this just an unavoidable problem with graceful restarts? Dan Wilga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Technology Specialist http://www.mtholyoke.edu Mount Holyoke College Tel: 413-538-3027 South Hadley, MA 01075 "Who left the cake out in the rain?"
