Re: Modperl/Apache deficiencies... Memory usage.

[Perrin Harkins]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Now with modperl the Perl garbage collector is
> NEVER used.  Because the reference count of those variables is never
> decremented... it's because it's all in the registry, and it's hard to
> tell... hmm... what should I throw away, and what should I keep? ;-).

What I know about Perl internals could fit on the head of a pin, but
this strikes me as a very odd statement.  If the garbage collector is
never used, why do my lexical variables go out of scope and get
destroyed?  There are mod_perl packages like Apache::Session that
absolutely depend on garbage collection of lexical variables to work. 
Are you saying that destroying the variables and actually reclaiming the
memory are separate, and only the first is happening?

- Perrin