As a sidenote often it is not really desired/dangerous to run image creation as a mod_perl handler because of the nature of perl, memory allocated once is never freed until the process shutdowns or is killed (by your Apache::SizeLimit handler).
I'm not familiar with fastcgi but you should make sure that the fcgi-process is killed when a certain amout of memory is exhausted like you would make it with Apache::SizeLimit. Tom Christopher H. Laco wrote: > Christopher H. Laco wrote: > >>That's in on the nose. Text::Textile uses Image::Size, which uses >>Image::Magick. Any incantation of pre loading this modules makes apache >>core. >> >>The funny part is, it only segfaults the main httpd process. apachectl >>start yields a core dump, but the child proc are created and serve pages >>just fine....until an apachectl stop is issued. Then the children stop, >>but the main proc cores again, sticks to 100% cpu, and isn't killable at >>all. >> >>For that matter, running these site run just fine under the Catalyst >>standalone dev server, so Image::Magick itself is generally usable. But >>I digress... >> >>I saw muttering about the net about trying the --enable--embeddable >>config option for Image::Magick, but that had no effect. What I haven't >>tried yet, is static compiling it, and see if that cures the problem. >> >>Unfortunately, not using Image::Magick or not preloading it isn't really >> a practical option for the sites I have that use it. It's touched by >>various image, thumbnail modules, textile, and even GD::SecurityImage >>for captchas. >> >>But since Catalyst sites are just as happy running under >>FastCGI/mod_fcgi, I think that's the lowest barrier to getting them up >>and running without a core dumping MP install. >> >>-=Chris >> >> > > > I finally got all the stuff back up and running last night under > mod_fastcgi. No encantation I could find (--enable--embeddable, static > linked lib, etc) would cure the segfaults when preloading Image::Magick. > In the end, I just ended up ditching mod_perl since it's not really a > requirement for the sites in question. > > -=Chris >
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