Apache growing (memory)

2001-04-25 Thread Kurt George Gjerde
Hi, I recently discovered the following on an Apache/mod_perl server. I have Apache for win32, ActiveState's Perl and the mod_perl PPM installed (on a Windows 2000 Pro OS, but read on anyway ;). All were downloaded and installed last week so they are the latest versions. Each time a page is

RE: Apache growing (memory)

2001-04-25 Thread Brendan McAdams
PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 08:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Apache growing (memory) Hi, I recently discovered the following on an Apache/mod_perl server. I have Apache for win32, ActiveState's Perl and the mod_perl PPM installed (on a Windows 2000 Pro OS, but read on anyway

Re: Apache growing (memory)

2001-04-25 Thread newsreader
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:02:06AM -0400, Brendan McAdams wrote: Our application performance actually improved across the board when we implements MaxRequests... (This Do you have numbers to back this up? How does reading in a new script every now and then IMPROVE anything compared to

Re: Apache growing (memory)

2001-04-25 Thread Joe Schaefer
Kurt George Gjerde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Each time a page is downloaded the Apache service process claims more memory. Well, not each time but like for every 20th download the task manager shows Apache using 20-30K more... A test showed that reloading the same page 2000 times raised

Re: Apache growing (memory)

2001-04-25 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, G.W. Haywood wrote: Hi all, On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Remco Schaar wrote: It is very hard to write perfect code, True, but it's not hard to write code that doesn't leak memory. void *p = NULL; ... ... if( p ) { exit(POINTER_ERROR); } void *p = malloc(n); ... ...

Re: [OT] Apache growing (memory)

2001-04-25 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi Matt, On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Matt Sergeant wrote: Easier still, just use boehm gc. ;-) Can you get that for MS-DOS? 73, Ged.

Re: [OT] writing code (was: Apache growing (memory))

2001-04-25 Thread Remco Schaar
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, G.W. Haywood wrote: Hi all, Hi again, On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Remco Schaar wrote: It is very hard to write perfect code, True, but it's not hard to write code that doesn't leak memory. void *p = NULL; ... ... if( p ) { exit(POINTER_ERROR); } void *p =

Re: Apache growing (memory)

2001-04-25 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi all, On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Remco Schaar wrote: It is very hard to write perfect code, True, but it's not hard to write code that doesn't leak memory. void *p = NULL; ... ... if( p ) { exit(POINTER_ERROR); } void *p = malloc(n); ... ... free( p ); p = NULL; ... ... By which I mean that I

Re: Apache growing (memory)

2001-04-25 Thread Remco Schaar
On 25 Apr 2001, Joe Schaefer wrote: Kurt George Gjerde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Even if your script were coded perfectly, it is still possible for this to happen in modperl. Personally, I would consider an average growth rate of only .5kB/hit absolutely wonderful :) As far I ever