Re: No image creation in mod_perl

[Foo Ji-Haw]

Hello Carl,

Nope that's right, so you load up one image. The perl process 
allocates itself 100MB of memory for it from the OS. Then doesn't 
release it back to the OS once it's finished with.

The perl process will re-use this memory, so if you process another 
image you don't grab another 100MB, it's just not available at the OS 
level or for other processes.

This isn't completely bad as long as your OS has good memory 
management. The unused memory in the perl process will just be swapped 
out to disk and left there until that process uses it again or exits.
Can I confirm that in the Windows implementation, if a thread allocates 
requires 100MB of memory and then releases it, the next thread can reuse 
that memory?

Thanks.