Son Chang wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm experiencing a memory leak with Apache 1.3.14 with mod_perl 1.23 and
>perl5.6.0 on Windows NT4.0 and Windows2000.
>I've been running some test with a very simple ModPerl handler which just
>outputs an HTML page with hello world in it. Also, I made sure to undef
>all
>variables that I use.
>In general, the child processes grow with each request.
>Also, if I set MaxRequestsPerChild to 20 so the child process dies and
>restarts after every 20 request, this fixes the problem for the child
>processes. However, with this configuration, there's a memory leak
>problem with the parent process. After the child process dies and
>restarts, the parent process grows in size. This happens every time the
>child process dies and restarts.
>So with either configuration, I have a memory leak problem.
>What can I do to fix this problem?
>
>-son
Heh, I just unsubscribed from the mailing list,
almost missed your question.
We ran into the exact same problem here.
Try:
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/groxbloiglim/03AB3CB11CBED3118A4
F009027B0C2B16B71A4@HAPPY
Our fix stops the child process growing, but not the parent.
-harshy
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Harshy Wanigasekara, Software guy, Omneon Video Networks.
