Can you fork off a separate process to do this (that will die once it is completed)?
The only place where forking is useful is where you want something to continue processing after sending the response back to the client. You can achieve the same effective result by calling $r->child_terminate() (assuming your using pre-fork). The currently running child exits at the end of the request freeing any memory it's allocated, and the main apache server process will fork a new child to replace it if needed. Carl
