Mike Meyer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.06 12:32:02 +0000:
> Calvin NG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
> >   Correct me if I m wrong.
> >   For in-core web server , every copy of server loaded has the perl and/or php
> >   in it.  For modules, its a shared library, the server is smaller size, and only
> >   a copy of the module is loaded in memory.
> 
> That's all correct. However, it wouldn't surprise me if the server +
> module is larger than the server with an in-core module. Since there's
> no reason to have more than one copy of the server loaded - even for a
> high-load server - there's still only one copy of the module
> loaded. Since everything shared in the module should also be shared
> with the in-core version, the total memory usage won't be very
> different.

it is, since apache is not multithreaded (1.x). so, on a heavily loaded
box you got "several" process images in mem, thus more overhead.

/k

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