On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Richard Clarke wrote: > "During the child exit phase, mod_perl invokes the Perl API function > perl_destruct( ) to run the contents of END blocks and to invoke the > DESTROY method for any global objects that have not gone out of scope > already."
Notice where it says "... for any global objects that have not gone out of scope already". In the code I posted, $r goes out of scope at the end of the handler subroutine. > So I think i'm right in saying that, "When I run this, the DESTROY > method is not called until the server shuts down." is perfectly normal > behaviour. I don't know how you are actually testing your "memory Well, creating an Apache::DESTROY method works and shows the Apache object going out of scope on a per-request basis. > usage", but I might suggest that if you are sending larger amounts of > data than previously, just once per 5000 requests then this memory is > gonna be consumed by apache forever (at least until httpd is killed). I tested with ab sending the same request thousands of times in a row. -dave /*================== www.urth.org we await the New Sun ==================*/
