> >>Issueing an "apachectl restart" (or kill -HUP) make the apache parent
> >>process size grow !
> >This was a well-known issue with mod_perl 1.x built using DSO. I never
> >use graceful restart because of this. I thought 2.x got rid of this
> >issue though. You could try making a static build and see if that fixes
> >it.
> I was thinking of this one
> add a perl bug workaround: with USE_ITHREADS perl leaks pthread_key_t
> on every reload of libperl.{a,so} (it's allocated on the very first
> perl_alloc() and never freed). This becomes a problem on apache
> restart: if the OS limit is 1024, 1024 restarts later things will
> start crashing [Gisle Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stas]
Interesting... I just chatted with Brian Somers (resident freeBSD
guru) and he told me that he was getting the same problem under a normal
perl, but when he recompiled his perl to use FreeBSD's malloc (rather than
perl's own), the problem went away; he could restart apache 100,000 times
with no memory leak.
- Tyler
