asters out there, and any information or pictures you can contribute to traveljury would be greatly appreciated.
I'm off to South America in a couple of weeks - laptop in hand - to start populating the database.
thanks again
Clinton Gormley
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 13:03, Ged Haywood wrote:
> > I had a look at the memory usage of my apache/mod_perl 1 processes,
> > and was alarmed to find that only 3Mb of 25Mb processes was being
> > shared (and that's straight after startup)
I see about the same on my own server when processes get
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 12:12, Clinton Gormley wrote:
I had a look at the memory usage of my apache/mod_perl 1 processes, and was alarmed to find that only 3Mb of 25Mb processes was being shared (and that's straight after startup)
I have gone to great lengths to
(1) Pr
I had a look at the memory usage of my apache/mod_perl 1 processes, and was alarmed to find that only 3Mb of 25Mb processes was being shared (and that's straight after startup)
I have gone to great lengths to
(1) Preload modules in my startup file
(2) Load shared config data during server sta
reboard?
After recompiling Apache with the mod_perl CVS snap shot from 4 April, I'm getting the same error.
Any ideas?
thanks
Clinton
n this scenario?
I've read the articles on cert.org (http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/malicious_code_mitigation.html) and apache.org (http://httpd.apache.org/info/css-security/encoding_examples.html)
thanks
Clinton Gormley
atform."
What implications does this have on the size of the cache that can be created with IPC::MM
thanks
Clinton Gormley
und reasonable or is overkill
many thanks
Clinton Gormley
Hi Enrico
After posting, I looked at Apache::AuthCookie for the first time - don't why I hadn't looked at it before - to find that I was, indeed, duplicating a lot of work that has been done before. Didn't I feel foolish!
It looks like Perrin may have to write a "...why not to write your own
n, so
please...
README is below. The module is available from :
http://cpan.perl.org/modules/by-authors/id/D/DR/DRTECH/Apache-Session-Manager-0.02.tar.gz
thanks
Clinton
Apache/Session/Manager version 0.02
===
Apache::Session::Manager provides a wrapper around A
Am I correct in this:
Apache::DBI can only really do its stuff when you perform a
DBI->connect, so by calling $dbh = DBI->connect(..) during PerlChildInit
and then never trying to reconnect, you are defeating the purpose of
using Apache::DBI.
To expand on this, when Apache::DBI intercepts a conn
I'm struggling to get anything much working with mod_perl 2.
I have installed mod_perl 1.99_07 with Apache 2.0.43. I have read all of
the documentation on perl.apache.org.
I can get a basic page returned to me with a modperl handler, but as
soon as I try to do anything of note (eg Apache->push_ha
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 04:33:11PM +0200, Eric Cholet wrote:
> I'm seeing this problem when using Apache::SOAP, using Cache::Cache
> 0.99 or 1.0. Downgrading to Digest::MD5 2.12 indeed solves it.
Hi -- I recently released version 1.01 of Cache::Cache to CPAN. This
version uses Digest::SHA1 as a
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:52:59PM +0300, Issac Goldstand wrote:
> So how exactly is the auto_purge meant to be used - the
> documentation is very hazy on that point (sure I can patch it - but
> you have to explain it to me first :)), and I just got lost when
> looknig at the module source.
The
bin/viewcvs.cgi/perl-cache/
The following is the Cache-Cache-1.0 README file:
Copyright (C) 2001 DeWitt Clinton All Rights Reserved
You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public
License or the Artistic License, as specified in the Perl README file.
NAME
Cache::Cache
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 10:39:03PM +0900, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa wrote:
> One instance for one server (across all httpd processes).
> Implemented using Cache::SharedMemoryCache (IPC).
Maybe you want to consider directly using Cache::SharedMemoryBackend
instead of the SharedMemoryCache class. The fu
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 06:11:33AM -0800, brian moseley wrote:
> doesn't it seem like there should be a way to denote object
> data as transient so that it doesn't get serialized by
> Storable, etc?
I'd love that as well. For example, when persisting Cache::Object
instances I manually strip out
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:05:33PM +1100, Rob Mueller (fastmail) wrote:
> I sat down the other day and wrote a test script to try out various
> caching implementations. The script is pretty basic at the moment, I
> just wanted to get an idea of the performance of different methods.
Rob, wow! Th
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 02:31:36AM -0800, Paul Lindner wrote:
> Right. A more elaborate Apache::CacheContent would have a filename
> hash function, and a separate cache directory structure along the
> lines of Cache::FileCache.
Just curious -- any reason not to use Cache::Cache as the persistan
tree (viewcvs):
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/perl-cache/
The following is the Cache-Cache-0.99 README file:
Copyright (C) 2001 DeWitt Clinton All Rights Reserved
You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public
License or the Artistic License, as
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 07:51:55AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> But this is obvious. I'm confused about why I'd have to explain it. :(
I posted this a year or two back:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">http://mathforum.org/epigone/modperl/jytwortwor/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here is the relevant part of tha
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:11:21PM -0500, Barrie Slaymaker wrote:
> Even a bit more OT: one thing to watch out for, especially if you
> plan on caching a *lot* of data, is that the Cache::* modules did
> not do collision detection on MD5 collisions the last time I looked.
> Forgive me if that's c
-up when that happens in case anyone wants
> to go and look
> at the pretty pictures.
Hi Perrin
What I'd love to see is the avg spec and numbers of machines in each
section. So how many proxy, mod_perl and search servers were required to
give the phenomenal performance you managed to achieve.
thanks
Clinton Gormley
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:43:41PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> I'd also like to hear people's opinions on XML::DOM (I think it
> stinks and I've replaced it with a C DOM implementation).
You just proved that you already know everything you need to on the
subject of XML::DOM. :)
Seriously
> >> OpenIndex provides a file manager for an Apache modperl
> web site using a
> >> web browser.
Looks good George
any plans to add better authentication (eg certificates) and to set it up
for secure SSL file transfers?
Clinton Gormley
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 08:49:22AM -0700, Nick Tonkin wrote:
> Cache::FileCache defaults to using /tmp for the location of its
> cache; does the system have /tmp (not sure what Cache::FileCache does if
> there's no /tmp, hafta look at the code).
You can manually override the temp directory by se
):
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/perl-cache/
The following is the Cache-Cache-0.09 README file:
Copyright (C) 2001 DeWitt Clinton All Rights Reserved
You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public
License or the Artistic License, as specified in the P
Hi,
If people have a moment, please check out Cache::Cache 0.09, which is
available here until I am ready to release it on CPAN:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/perl-cache/Cache-Cache-0.09.tar.gz
Changes include:
- applied Axel Beckert patch to fix the expiration units
- applied Ke
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:14:52PM -0700, Rob Bloodgood wrote:
> ***OH WOW!*** So, DURING the course of composing this message, I've
> realized that the function expire_old_accounts() is now redundant!
> Cache::Cache takes care of that, both with expires_in and max_size. I'm
> leaving it in for
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:18:18PM +1000, Cees Hek wrote:
> So what your saying is that you have a list of potentially rooted machines
> that you are making publically available... Doesn't sound like such a
> good idea to me...
So *that's* why Reuven has CodeRed.pm CC him on the warning emails.
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 03:06:37PM -0400, DeWitt Clinton wrote:
> To quote Jimi Williams, "manager's decision."
Yes, I know it is Jimy Williams. See what happens when a lifelong Red
Sox fan relocates down to NYC? We start losing our minds... :)
-DeWitt
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 10:34:34AM -0700, brian moseley wrote:
> ps: i've modified my code to 1) only get once per request
> and 2) set at the end of each request. the net effect is
> that stuff works as expected. i'm reasonably happy with the
> current state of affairs, but...
Excellent, this i
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 09:17:21AM -0700, brian moseley wrote:
> could this be because i'm only ever doing one set, at
> session creation time? since i'm using a memory cache, i
> didn't expect to have to call set every time i modify the
> cached data.
Yup. That would be it. Please see my resp
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:33:43PM -0700, brian moseley wrote:
> i'm observing some behavior using Cache::Cache that seems
> odd, altho it may be due to my faulty understanding of how
> the interface works.
Can you check the actual data contained within the object? If I
understand things right,
-cache/
The following is the Cache-Cache-0.08 README file:
Copyright (C) 2001 DeWitt Clinton All Rights Reserved
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:57:26PM +0100, Matt wrote:
> Thanks for the pointers, unfortunately I've got a problem with the
> Shared cache in that I need IPC::ShareLite, no problem, except it
> won't test ok,
I'm not sure what the IPC::ShareLite problem is, maybe Maurice Aubrey
does...
In any ca
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:38:34PM -0800, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, DeWitt Clinton wrote:
>
> > I imagine that nearly most Perl libraries are not thread safe, of
> > course. But code that will be used in mod_perl environments needs
> > to be, righ
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:19:15PM -0500, Pierre Phaneuf wrote:
> DeWitt Clinton wrote:
>
> > The other question is whether or not to share the cache instance
> > itself globally. Technically, this is up to you. Personally I
> > wouldn't bother, considering the
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:50:33PM +0100, Matt wrote:
> I want to cache some values in my handlers so they don't keep having
> to look stuff up, and so I figured a Cache::SharedMemoryCache would
> be the way to go.
It all depends on what you want to cache and why. If you wanted to
save a trip t
/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi?cvsroot=perl-cache
The following is the Cache-Cache-0.06 README file:
Copyright (C) 2001 DeWitt Clinton All Rights Reserved
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Cache-Cache-0.05 README file:
Copyright (C) 2001 DeWitt Clinton All Rights Reserved
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at
://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi?cvsroot=perl-cache
The following is the Cache-Cache-0.04 README file:
Copyright (C) 2001 DeWitt Clinton All Rights Reserved
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 03:33:12PM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> I've looked at Cache::FileCache now and think it's (currently) not
> possible to use for IPC::FsSharevars:
>
> I really miss locking capabilities. Imagine a script that reads a
> value at the beginning of a request and writes
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 04:35:02PM -0800, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> Christian Jaeger wrote:
> > Yes, it uses a separate file for each variable. This way also locking
> > is solved, each variable has it's own file lock.
>
> You should take a look at DeWitt Clinton's Cache::FileCache module,
> announ
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:10:35PM -0800, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> "Daniel Little (Metrex)" wrote:
> > Along the same lines, how about making SizeAwareMemoryCache as well so that
> > you can specify just how much data you want stored in the cache.
>
> Sounds like Joshua Chamas' Tie::Cache module.
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 02:00:34PM -0600, Daniel Little (Metrex) wrote:
> Along the same lines, how about making SizeAwareMemoryCache as well
> so that you can specify just how much data you want stored in the
> cache.
Good idea. I'll add that to the 0.04 feature list as well.
Thanks!
-DeWitt
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 11:17:21AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> When you say successor to File::Cache does that means File::Cache
> will not be maintained as a separate module anymore?
There are no features in File::Cache that will not exist in
Cache::FileCache and Cache::SizeAwareFileCache. Ac
.sourceforge.net/perl-cache/Cache-Cache-0.03.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=26779
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi?cvsroot=perl-cache
The following is the Cache-Cache-0.03 README file:
Copyright (C) 2001 DeWitt Clinton
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:14:37PM +, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> I wonder if I should write them an article about take23, and then
> use the funds to pay for articles for take23 :-)
Geez, Matt, you promote take23 every chance you get.
That's worse than me mentioning Avacet (www.avacet.com
Summary:
Perl Cache is the successor to the popular File::Cache and
IPC::Cache perl libraries. This project unifies those modules under
the generic Cache::Cache interface and implements Cache::FileCache,
Cache::MemoryCache, Cache::SharedMemoryCache, and
Cache::SizeAwareFileCache.
Rele
Hello:
Perl Cache is the successor to the popular File::Cache and
IPC::Cache perl libraries. This project unifies those modules under
the generic Cache::Cache interface and implements Cache::FileCache,
Cache::MemoryCache, and Cache::SharedMemoryCache.
The project is being hosted on Sou
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 04:02:39PM +0400, BeerBong wrote:
> Cache size after 24 hours of working
> via 'du -s' - 53M
> via 'perl -MFile::Cacje -e"print File::Cache::SIZE('PRTL')"' - 10M
That looks like a serious bug. Can you double check on that? Where
are you running the "du -s"?
The SIZE(
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:06:13AM +, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> The only gain might be in a large DOM tree where there may be
> thousands of objects. But then you're really better off using an
> array based class instead (as I found out).
This is getting a bit off-topic, but I'm empirically fou
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:10:25AM -0800, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> Always start with CPAN. Try Tie::FileLRUCache or File::Cache for
> starters. A dbm would be fine too, but more trouble to purge old
> entries from.
If you find that File::Cache works for you, then you may also want to
check out t
Hi! I've been quiet for a while on this list, but I still read it
religiously. I wanted to take a second and share our announcement of
the release of the second beta of the Avacet Application Engine.
Version 2.0b2 of the Avacet Application Engine is available for
download at http://www.
it to CPAN. As always, feedback, advice, and criticism are
always welcome.
-DeWitt
README:
Copyright (C) 2000 DeWitt Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Avacet, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public Lice
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 04:16:09PM -0700, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> Maybe I'm just being thick, but if you leave out the event driven parts of
> the spec, what's left that isn't just an ordinary Perl class? You can
> easily make classes to hold data using Class::Struct or
> Class::MethodMaker.
In
Hi all,
Okay, this is a rather ridiculous question. I spent the weekend
implementing a property based object model in Java. However, after I
finished, someone in my company laughingly pointed out that I had just
re-invented Java beans. While there were some minor advantages to the
model I came
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 03:46:41PM -0700, Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
> I know what beta testing is, so I hope you didn't think I was trying to yank
> your chain! I knew that if it got ugly I could easily take that server
> offline and easily back out the code.
Ack! I'm sorry for what I think is a m
That's why I wanted more beta testers on real servers. :)
You may want to roll back to 0.02 on that server. I'll run some more
benchmarks and profile the code to see where the issue is. IPC::Cache
actually got a lot lighter, since I'm relying on IPC::SharedCache to
do most of the work.
I'l
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 04:35:54PM -0400, Drew Taylor wrote:
> Could I ask what the problems you were having? I can't use
> IPC::SharedCache currently because I get the error "Couldn't find free
> segment" or something like that when trying to initialize the cache. The
> system engineers are supp
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 12:06:20PM -0700, Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
> IPC::Cache has worked like a champ for me on a heavily loaded webserver.
> It's simple and (I'm lead to believe) it's a compiled module. You interact
> with it like a hash file, but if you're clever you can work it out for your
>
Hi,
Interesting thread and interesting question.
It makes sense to start with the requirements for what it means to
implement those secure features. My requirements have an obvious
e-commerce bias, and should probably be heavily reviewed by anyone
thinking of using this design for onli
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 12:43:57PM -0400, Delaporta, Michael wrote:
> I'm currently using XML::Parser (2.28) under Apache (1.3.11) and
> mod_perl (1.21) and have noticed a fairly large number of segfaults in
> the Apache error_log.
>
> I noticed a discussion about this problem on the list about
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Saar Picker wrote:
> I've been trying cache DBI database handles using IPC::Shareable and
> IPC::Cache(based on ShareLite) without much luck. This is not necessarily
> a mod-perl problem, but I figured someone on this list must have tried
> this already.
Hi Saar -- sorry I ha
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Peter Skipworth wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience in using IPC shared memory or similar in
> caching data amongst multiple httpd daemons ?
Well, I just released IPC::Cache version 0.02 to CPAN. Two major caveats,
however -- first, it is not currently in production on
Hi,
[I sent this out a while back, but it never made it through. Odd.]
Based on some great feedback from this list, I was able to remove the
dependency on IPC::Shareable. Not that I dislike IPC::Shareable -- to the
contrary, it does what it does rather well -- but I was really looking for
some
]
thanks
Clinton Gormley
Webmaster, Orgasmic Wines
http://www.orgasmicwines.com
Hi,
A week or two ago, in the squid performance thread, I mentioned that I was
looking for ways to eliminate squid from our production servers. I noted
that we are using squid to save an expensive trip to the database to
retrieve mostly static files. At that time I said that I planned to write
[apologies if people get this twice -- it seemed to bounce the first time]
> We've been getting many segv's and bus errors on apache processes since
> adding modperl. Env: Apache 1.3.11 (though we had the same thing
> under 1.3.9.), Perl 5.005003, modperl 1.21, hpux 11.00.
If you compare this
Hi,
I'm in the process of upgrading our servers (hoping to replace Stronghold
with mod_ssl) and I came across a problem with a segfaulting httpd.
I'm using:
apache_1.3.11
openssl-0.9.4
mod_ssl-2.5.0-1.3.11
mod_perl-1.21
HTML-Embperl-1.2.1
After some number of requests (sometimes the
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Steven Lembark wrote:
> given you have the core to support it... try using libmm and
> a tied hash to just stash the stuff until it's asked for.
Actually, we are currently developing a generic object caching interface
that will support a TTL based on expiration dates, and
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I am switching my modperl site to squid in httpd acclerator mode
> and everything works as advertised, but was very surprised to find
> squid 10x slower than apache on a cached 6k gif as measured by
> apache bench... 100 requests/second vs almost
I am using a home-baked session manager on my web site. I clean up
expired sessions by called a child exit handlder and this all worked
rather well.
However, we have recompiled Perl, Apache, mod_perl and Perl modules with
pgcc and a different configuration (removed all modules we didn't need),
a
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Gerald Richter wrote:
> So the solution to your problem should be, to use a fixed package name for
> all calls to the _same_ page.
Brilliant! This does address exactly the problem I raised, and makes
perfect sense.
I had to do one absolutely wacky thing, though. Because I
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Gerald Richter wrote:
> If I had understand you right, the first call via execute to your template
> works and the second not, right?
>
> That's not a bug! Embperl cleans up all your global variables inside your
> page after every request. $vars in your template is such a glo
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Gerald Richter wrote:
> Rereading your first mail, seems to me that there is an additional problem
> with Embperl's cleanup. This has nothing todo with Safe namespaces. Embperl
> will per default tidyup your namespace and therefor execute something like
> $vars = undef at the
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Gerald Richter wrote:
> The problem is, that Embperl must know, that you want to run in a Safe
> compartement. Just add
>
> 'options' => HTML::Embperl::optSafeNamespace
>
> to the Excute parameters and it should work.
Right. That makes sense, and it is definitely a good id
matter at compile time, or is it sufficient that the default
Perl binary is the correct one at run time? Does the binary you use to
run Makefile.pl have any influence?
Any help greatly appreciated
Thanks
Clinton Gormley
> Why is it that my memory usage is going up and up, and
> shutting down the two
> major consumers of memory (Apache/mod_perl and MySQL) don't
> reclaim that
> memory?
>
> I am running RedHat 6, with Apache 1.3.9, mod_perl 1.21, and
> MySQL 3.23a.
As an aswer to my question to anybody in a si
Why is it that my memory usage is going up and up, and shutting down the two
major consumers of memory (Apache/mod_perl and MySQL) don't reclaim that
memory?
I am running RedHat 6, with Apache 1.3.9, mod_perl 1.21, and MySQL 3.23a.
I restarted my web server a week ago, at which stage the running
Thanks Greg
> I strongly suggest you move the images to a separate hostname
> altogether. The
> proxy is a good idea but there are other useful effects of
> having a separate
> server altogether that I plan to write about in a separate
> message sometime.
> This does mean rewriting all your img t
Hi
I had huge problems yesterday. Our web site made it in to the Sunday
Times and has had to serve 1/2 million request in the last 2 days.
Had I set it up to have proxy servers and a separate mod_perl server?
No. DOH! So what happened to my 1Gig baby? It died. A sad and unhappy
death.
I am i
> -Original Message-
> From: Miguel A.L. Paraz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 16 October 1999 11:27
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: -HUP makes httpd grow
>
>
> I'm sorry if this is a FAQ...
>
> Every time I give httpd a -HUP to make .conf changes take effect, the
> memory consumpti
When you refer to bound parameters, do you refer only to the use of
$sth->bind_param, or would calling $sth->execute($foo,$bar) also qualify.
Is there any difference between using these methods other than clarity of
code?
Thanks
Clint
> -Original Message-
> From: Jeffrey W. Baker [mai
Many thanks Geoff
I feel rather embarassed to admit my stupidity here. Most pages didn't
include the ID from notes because (DOH!) they were images and the browser
was not required to prove its identity.
When I scanned up the page a bit... indeed there they were
My apologies, and again thanks
Hi all
I have asked this before, but I still haven't managed to shed any light on
it, so I was hoping that somebody might be able to shed some more light.
(While you're about it, have a look at the site we have just launched :
http://www.orgasmicwines.com - mod_perl & mysql based site.)
If I st
Hi all
I have asked this before, but I still haven't managed to shed any light
on it, so I was hoping that somebody might be able to shed some more
light.
(While you're about it, have a look at the site we have just launched :
http://www.orgasmicwines.com - mod_perl & mysql based site.)
If I st
You need to set MaxClients to the maximum number of children you want.
Clint
> -Original Message-
> From: Anthony Gardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 2:46 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Apache and too many children
>
>
> All,
>
> Apache is spaw
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