> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ime Smits [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 12:57 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Scheduling an Apache child for termination/influence
> MaxRequestsPerChild counter
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I wonder if it's possible to somehow alter Apache's internal
> counter matched
> against MaxRequestPerChild or schedule the launching of a new
> child from
> withing mod_perl.
>
> The reason I want to do this, is that in the administrator
> section of my
> website, quite some stuff gets cached from the PostgreSQL
> backend on a per
> process basis and there is really no use to keep all those
> caches after the
> administrator hit the logout button.
http://perl.apache.org/guide/porting.html#Terminating_requests_and_process
see the part on child_terminate()
HTH
--Geoff
>
> Plus, I want to be able to terminate a process if some kind cache
> inconsistency is detected. I know it's better to track the
> origin of that
> inconsistency and fix it there, but I'm using some modules
> which I did not
> create myself and I'm not planning to dig into 5000+ lines of
> code I did not
> wrote. What I really would like to do is to just finish the
> current page,
> dropping a line like "things are getting fishy here", wipe the
> administrator's session cookie and let the child die.
>
> Ime
>
