what version of Apache you used ?
It's known that 1.3.6 had the problem you mentioned but in 1.3.9
this was fixed.
Oleg
On 28 Oct 1999, Greg Stark wrote:
> Date: 28 Oct 1999 01:40:20 -0400
> From: Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Mod Perl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Apache mod_proxy inefficiencies
>
>
> A lot of people have talked about running a proxy in front of your mod_perl
> processes, well a word of caution, maybe squid is more efficient, but
> mod_proxy does a double fork at the end of every request. This is part of the
> caching file garbage collection but it happens even if you don't have caching
> enabled.
>
> I'm trying it with the second to last line of src/modules/proxy/proxy_http.c
> commented out, and it seems to be ok after about an hour.
>
> This should maybe be mentioned in the mod_perl guide with the mod_proxy
> recipe.
>
> --
> greg
>
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