When people talk about optimizing mod_perl shared memory, they are not
referring to System V type shared memory as seen by ipcs. They are
talking about memory shared by virtue of a process fork - this is
effectively read only memory. The net effect is that a process may
appear to be 20 meg, but
We are running a reasonably busy web site on FreeBSD (100K-200K hits per
day); we have split the database server (MySQL on FreeBSD 4.3) apart from
the web server (Apache on FreeBSD 5.0 now). Both running i386 versions
(Athlon CPUs).
Things generally work very well, but ongoing memory usage is a
