Actually my solution to this problem was pretty rational. I just turned
mod_perl off for this particular program.
<Files ~ "(?<!myfork)\.pl$">
PerlHandler ModPerl::Registry
</Files>
Will I a have possible performance problems? Sure, but nothing a few
more $25/month servers can't fix, and it saves me all the aggravation of
the past months trying to get this to work.
Problem solved!
Tosh
Torsten Förtsch wrote:
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 14:21:57 Tosh Cooey wrote:
use POSIX 'setsid';
if( fork ) { POSIX::_exit 0; CORE::exit 0 }
chdir '/' or die "Can't chdir to /: $!";
simplest is to fork() another time to break the parent-child relationship.
Keep in mind that you make your service vulnerable if you simply fork off long
running processes.
What prevents a user from testing it:
ab -n 100000 -c 100 http://...
This will quite fast create a *lot* of processes.
I tend to use some kind of queue for such processing. But, of course, it
depends.
Torsten
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