>>>>> "GS" == Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

GS> A lot of people have talked about running a proxy in front of your
GS> mod_perl processes, well a word of caution, maybe squid is more
GS> efficient, but mod_proxy does a double fork at the end of every
GS> request. This is part of the caching file garbage collection but
GS> it happens even if you don't have caching enabled.

What version of Apache do you have?  I believe recent incarnations
only do the cache cleanup at a time-based interval, not on every
request.

The CHANGES file doesn't reflect this, but the code in proxy_cache.c
does seem to have a time-based cleanup.

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