Hi there,
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Buddy Lee Haystack wrote:
> The memory consumption increases by about 1 megabyte for each child
> process every time I issued the USR1 signal.
Ugh.
> I can always rotate my logs manually, I'm leaning along the lines of
> just killing the process, rotating the logs, and restarting it. It
> should take no more than 5 seconds once a week a 4:00am.
Yup.
> What concerns me even more is the fact that I have Apache restart
> child processes after they each serve 100 requests
> [MaxRequestsPerChild 100] it's a RedHat default that is supposed to
> reduce memory leaks,
It tends to reduce the effect of them. The leaks are still there.
> but with mod_perl & DSO it may actually have the opposite effect. I
> can easily increase the value, or remove it altogether. Any
> recommendations?
I'd say compile static and do that anyway. Definitely don't remove it
nor set it to zero. You aren't out of the memory leak woods just
because you don't use DSO. 100 is towards the upper limit of what I'd
use, and towards the lower limit of what most other people will use.
> I take it that by far the most prudent course of action would be to
> role my own, and compile mod_perl statically. I may have to do just
> that, but I won't have the time to do so until December;
It shouldn't take very long to compile. Takes me ten minutes using a
file called makepl_args.mod_perl containing my configuration options,
in the top level of the mod_perl directory. The command line goes:
c2h5oh:/usr/src/mod_perl# >>> perl Makefile.pl && make && make install
Then I just stop the old server and start the new one.
73,
Ged.
