John ORourke wrote:
It does make a separate DB connection in each apache process but
I think trying to share 1 DB connection between httpd's is probably
going to cost more than it gains.
It's not actually possible to share a connection between processes
unless your database library explicitly supports it, like Sybase.
In the DB-related module be sure to include a 'ping' method so your
mod_perl module can reconnect if the DB connection drops.
Create a new instance of the mod_perl handler module during startup and
refer to that for the handlers (code below).
This module would then cache DB connections and provide a method for
'create or fetch current DB connection'.
DBI->connect_cached will do all of this for you.
- Perrin
