Re: PPerl+qpsmtpd observations

2004-08-20 Thread Matt Sergeant
On 19 Aug 2004, at 14:45, Mark Powell wrote: Hi, Just started testing PPerl 0.25, perl v5.8.5, qpsmtpd-cvs-20040817. When it starts up I get 64 ./qpsmtpd processes obviously all with the same start time. If I look a few hours later I see that some (10-15) processes now have a later start time.

Re: PPerl+qpsmtpd observations

2004-08-20 Thread Mark Powell
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Matt Sergeant wrote: On 19 Aug 2004, at 14:45, Mark Powell wrote: now have a later start time. It seems that some of the original processes have died and were restarted. Is this to be expected? Or is something wrong. I assumed those 64 processes would run forever.

Re: PPerl+qpsmtpd observations

2004-08-20 Thread Mark Powell
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Mark Powell wrote: No, like Apache, PPerl has a maxclients setting, and the processes will exit (and a new one reborn) after that number of connections. Ok I see. It didn't seem clear when I first configured pperl as --prefork= --maxclients= seemed to mean the same