Hi, I have a problem where a mod_perl handler will allocate a lot of memory when processing a request, and this causes Apache to kill the child due to exceeding the configure child size limit.
However, the memory allocated will get freed up or re-used by the next request - I think the memory is just fragmented enough to be automatically reclaimed by the memory allocator (I've heard that some mallocs can return memory to the OS in 1 MB chunks.) Are there any special techniques people use to avoid this situation? Does SizeLimit count actual memory used or does it just look at the process size? Thanks, ER
