are you hitting the same child process over and over again?
try starting the server in single user mode -X, and see if
you still see the same results.
cliff
Bill McCabe wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have a mod_perl module in which I am trying to make use of package
> globals for relatively static data. The code is in essence the following:
>
> package Apache::repsys;
> #File Apache/repsys.pm
>
> use strict;
> use Apache::Constants qw(:common);
>
> my ($var1, $var2);
>
> sub handler {
> my $r = shift;
>
> #generate string with org_cd selections HTML
> &set_var1($r, \$var1) unless defined $var1;
>
> ...
>
> }
>
> sub set_var1
> {
> my $r = shift;
> my $var1_ref = shift;
>
> $r->log_error("Setting var1");
> $$var1_ref = "HTML string here";
> }
>
> Accorging to (my understanding of) the Apache Modules book, $var1 should
> stay set between calls to handler() (cf. Apache::ESSI). The module works
> great except that my logs show set_var1() is getting hit every time the URL
> is accessed, which is bad because the HTML string is set up by a
> substantial call to a backend database. What am I missing/confusing?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Bill
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