Hey Doug,
Any reason why PerlRestartHandler is still experimental ?
I gave it a spin at your advice by compiling with
PERL_RESTART_HANDLER=1 and it works great. It would be
nice if the handler moved into EVERYTHING=1 at some point.
PerlRestartHandler is useful with Apache::ASP, as it allows
a parent httpd to recompile changed ASP scripts, if
Apache::ASP->Loader() is run in the PerlRestartHandler.
The parent recompiles changed scripts with a graceful
restart, minimizing the downtime of one's site. This is
much better than having to a full stop / start of apache,
which will kill currently active connections.
Precompiling scripts in the parent httpd shares these
precompilations with the forked child httpds, so that RAM
is saved and CPU spared, instead of compiling the scripts
in each child httpd separately.
A similar strategy may be used with precompiling
cgi scripts run with Apache::Registry and precompiled
by Apache::RegistryLoader.
-- Joshua
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