On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Roger Espel Llima wrote:

> > !) 'Do not' load mod_perl as a DSO.

This should be a golden rule if you plan on HUPing your server with any
regularity.

> > 2) 'Do not': "PerlFreshRestart On" in httpd.conf.
> 
> Curiously enough, "PerlFreshRestart On" has always worked for me, even
> on the production servers.
> 
> It's pretty damn useful too, giving servers a graceful restart everytime
> you upload a module...  it'd be a pain to have to fully restart the
> server every time, that would mean like 10 seconds of downtime for the
> whole site.

It's even more useful if you want to cache a large quantity of data in
ram with the root process and then periodically refresh that data.

-- 
<Douglas Leonard>
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