On Aug 15, Doug MacEachern wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Jim Winstead wrote:
>
> > We were seeing some servers spin out of control (allocating memory
> > slowly) in Apace::Constants::AUTOLOAD (which apparently has been
> > reported in the mailing list before).
> >
> > The attached patch fixes the problems for us. Could someone who
> > understands what is going on here shed some light?
>
> ouch, how did you trigger this problem? i don't see how that could
> happen Apache::Constants::__AUTOLOAD should always be defined inside
> httpd. does this version of your patch prevent it?
good question. i have no idea what triggered it. and since our
patch seems to have cleared up the problem for us (which i think
we only ever saw on production servers), i'm reluctant to try a
new one.
perhaps it is related to this old problem:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl&m=94528502827088&w=2
jim
