I left out the link to the thread. Here it is. https://marc.info/?t=119062870700002&r=1&w=2
> On Sep 14, 2020, at 1:18 AM, Wesley Peng <wp...@pobox.com> wrote: > > That's great. Thank you Adam. > > Adam Prime wrote: >> If the database doesn't change very often, and you don't mind only getting >> updates to your database when you restart apache, and you're using prefork >> mod_perl, then you could use a startup.pl to load your database before >> apache forks, and get a shared copy globally in all your apache children. >> https://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/config.html#The_Startup_File >> This thread from 13 years ago seems to have a clear-ish example of how to >> use startup.pl to do what i'm talking about. >> If you need it to update more frequently than when you restart apache, you >> could potentially use a PerlChildInitHandler to load the data when apache >> creates children. This will use more memory, as each child will have it's >> own copy, and can also result in situation where children can have different >> versions of the database loaded and be serving requests at the same time. >> If you want to go this way you might want to also add a MaxRequestsPerChild >> directive to your apache config to make sure that you're children die and >> get refreshed on the regular, if you don't already have one. >> Adam >>> On 9/13/2020 10:51 PM, Wesley Peng wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> I am not so familiar with modperl. >>> >>> For work requirement, I need to access IANA TLD database. >>> >>> So I wrote this perl module: >>> https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::IANA::TLD >>> >>> But, for each new() in the module, the database file will be downloaded >>> from IANA's website. >>> >>> I know this is pretty Inefficient. >>> >>> My question is, can I cache the new'ed object by modperl? >>> >>> If so, how to do? >>> >>> Thanks.
