Core directives to definitively control the amount of memory, et al, that Apache 2 uses would be a DEFINITE functional upgrade-driver for some businesses and applications to upgrade to 2.0. Apache has certainly come a long way from the little control availible in 1.3 but more is needed. At present, processes spun off of apache threads or child processes can be limited but not the actual footprint of apache itself, without using mod_perl...that I am aware of, anyway. I have done quite a bit of web searching on the matter and from the results, I would think that I would not be the first to suggest this. Is there something that already handles this without using a third party module? Is there any apache development project in progress for 2.1 or future commit to 2.0 which is working on implementing this?
Why does RLimitMem not do what you want? HTH. -- justin
