Need an explanation of APR::Pool and it's use in mod_perl

2010-01-17 Thread Boysenberry Payne
Hello everyone, I've been looking over the APR::Pool because some pools gets passed to some of my handlers and I was wondering how I could use it to good effect managing my memory better. There are great instructions on the API for it, but no real explanation as to how to use the pool (at least

A question of debugging/testing for when memory goes from shared to unshared

2010-01-17 Thread Boysenberry Payne
Hello Everyone, After reading Practical mod_perl's section on Improving Performance with Shared Memory and proper forking a bit, I'm wondering if I can setup a means for testing what is shared and when it becomes unshared in my memory usage. I can't seem to currently get GTop installed on my O