This problem is why mod_cgid exists. Been there. Done that. It creates a daemon early, before threads/mem are allocated. The child CGI processes are then fast to spawn.
Cheers, -g (*) http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_cgid.html On Nov 13, 2012 6:44 PM, "Daniel Shahaf" <[email protected]> wrote: > Philip Martin wrote on Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 21:30:00 +0000: > > Perhaps we could start up a separate hook script process before > > allocating the large FSFS cache and then delegate the fork/exec to that > > smaller process? > > If so, let's have that daemon handle all forks we might do, not just > those related to hook scripts. (Otherwise we'll run into the same > problem as soon as we have another use-case for fork() in the server > code --- such as calling svn_sysinfo__release_name().) > > > > > -- > > Certified & Supported Apache Subversion Downloads: > > http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/download >
