I'd using ithreads on ActivePerl 5.8.7 and Apache/2.0.54 (Win32). All scripts with ithreads did working excellent. Since I've installed mod_perl/2.0.1 with 'ppm install', those scripts have ceased to work (there's an initial HTML-table's dumping only). Due to I couldn't find another ways to demonstrate several processes working in pseudo-parallel (on win32), I was forced to write CGI- scripts just for a browser, not for shell. That is why I print out a multicolumn table.
What there are on my PC: w2k SP3 MSIE6 SP1 Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7g PHP/4.3.11 mod_perl/2.0.1 Perl/v5.8.7 I downloaded the pre-compiled binary file that is about 30 Mb from: http://apache.tsuren.net/perl/win32-bin/Perl-5.8-win32-bin-0.10.exe It's the "All in one packages": Apache, ActivePerl, mod_perl, mod_php and so on. Paths: C:\Perl\bin\ C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\bin\ I'm writing and running CGI-scripts under MSIE6 that use the $|++ buffering, the threads module and so on. Here are all the modules I'm using within any single thread-script: use strict; use warnings; use Time::HiRes; use threads; use threads::shared; use Thread::Queue; Also I've checked up and modified paths and some directives in the httpd.conf according to mod_perl 2.0 docs: ################################################################### <IfModule mpm_winnt.c> ThreadsPerChild 4 MaxRequestsPerChild 0 </IfModule> LoadFile "C:/Perl/bin/perl58.dll" LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs" <Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/htdocs"> Alias /modperl/ "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/modperl/" Alias /perl/ "/Apache2/perl/" <Location /perl> SetHandler perl-script PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry Options +ExecCGI PerlOptions +ParseHeaders </Location> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin/" <Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <IfModule mod_perl.c> Include conf/perl.conf </IfModule> ################################################################### Also I made like that in the perl.conf. A script was placed to C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/perl/ dir and running from MSIE as http://localhost/perl/myscript.pl with no shebang! Now the error.log says: Sat Jul 30 16:33:19 2005] [notice] Child 1048: Child process is running [Sat Jul 30 16:33:19 2005] [notice] Child 1048: Acquired the start mutex. [Sat Jul 30 16:33:19 2005] [notice] Child 1048: Starting 4 worker threads. Variable "$q_letters" will not stay shared at (eval 75) line 75. Variable "@threads" will not stay shared at (eval 75) line 73. ...and so on. When I'd running that script with Perl.exe interpreter from cgi-bin dir and #!C:\Perl\bin\perl -w shebang, there weren't any errors and warning messages. Here is an example of what is the $q_letters variable: my $q_letters = new Thread::Queue; $q_letters->enqueue('a','b','c', 'd','e','f', 'g','h','i'); When I'm running the same script just in a shell, I seeing a HTML-table's dumpimg again and no more, although the CPU still doing something hidden for certain period. Also I'd looking at processes and seeing something like leak of memory: Apache.exe did growing up to 45 Mb after that w2k had displayed alert msg about "virtual memory is almost up". What's wrong? How to solve the problem of running win32-CGI-thread-scripts on mod_perl 2.0 and Apache2? Is mod_perl 2.0 intended for using the win32's threads module and the rest I using? If you're interesting, I'll post my script (3 kb) here. Thanx. P.S.: While I'd writing the message I nevertheless could wait until a script shows some incorrect results in MSIE (about 10 min!!! later after script was started).