On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Andreas Schiffler wrote:
> Andreas Schiffler wrote:
>
> >
> > I have a problem that I can't explain and don't know exactly how to
> > debug: the httpd process keeps gobbling up memory over time.
> >
>
> In reply to my own question, I found the cuplrit after some poking
> around in frequent restarts of the webserver using:
> apachectl restart
>
> After each code change, the new scripts were copied onto the server and
> apache restarted. Since we are in active development, this occured
> several times a day and each time apache was restarted this way, its
> memory consumption went up.
>
> Doing it the "hard" way with the /etc/rc.d/init.d script
> httpd restart
> solves the problem.
>
> Kindof a weired interaction between mod_perl and apache - can someone
> elaborate on "is this a bug or is it a feature"?
Do you have PerlFreshRestart On ?
If so, don't. Install Apache::Reload and try that instead.
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