I am sending this again hoping someone would respond. Thanks in advance.
Jason On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Jason Fister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > In my apache module, I receive, process and return large amounts of data. > The size of the data could be as large as 100's of megabytes. I allocate > memory from the request pool and let apache clean up the memory after each > request is served. > > Although, apache is supposed to reclaim memory after each request is > served, I would like to explicitly clean up memory after processing each > request. This is because of the fact that size of data associated with each > requests and a large number of clients calling in to the module. > > After doing some research this is what I am thinking about doing. In my > module_handler > > apr_allocator_t *local_allocator = NULL; > apr_pool_t *localPool = NULL; > > apr_allocator_create(&local_allocator); > apr_pool_create_ex(&localPool, NULL, NULL, local_allocator); > ................... > ................... > allocate memory from this local pool > ................... > ................... > > apr_pool_destroy(localPool); > apr_allocator_destroy(local_allocator); > > return OK; > > > Do you guys see any problem with this approach? > > > Jason Fister >
