Have you tried to create a persistent connection between mod_perl and 
MySQL? DBI connect within your startup.pl?

Jay Scherrer

On Wednesday 09 March 2005 01:45 pm, Alejandro Galue wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm using Fedora Core 3 with this packages version (RPM):
>
> httpd-2.0.52-3.1
> mod_perl-1.99_16-3
> perl-DBI-1.40'5
> perl-DBD-MySQL-2.9004-4
> libdbi-0.6.5-10
> libdbi-dbd-mysql-0.6.5-10
> mysql-4.1.9-1
> mysql-server-4.1.9-1
> mysqlclient10-3.23.58-4
>
> I downloaded source rpm for Mysql from fedora-development and
> rebuild on a updated fedora core 3.
>
> I have an application that run a script to read and modify mysql
> (this part works great), and the web interface for this
> application. This web interface
>
> was created totally with mod_perl.
>
> After a certain amount of time, it cannot be possible to use the
> database frontend via web becase it cannot connect to database.
> This problem appears when we run the application in a limited RAM
> machine - 128 - 256MB; before that we have never experience the
> problem. It has been working ok in HW with RAM between 386MB and
> 512MB RAM.
>
> I can enter to database manually and check status and mysql is up;
> but I need to restart apache to have the Web front-end working
> properly again.
>
> After some hours the failure shows up again.
>
> Anyone have any idea of what is happening here ?
>
> My guest is : the problem should be related to perl-DBI or mod_perl
> or maybe the configuracion of modperl or mysql. My questions in
> this case:
>
> - Does it sound like the place to look for the problem ?
> - Any tips on how to turn on the debugging on this components ? How
> to figure out which one is responsible for the failure and why  ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Alejandro Galue.

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