I saw this fix in one of the mailing list archives and tried it but I'm still
getting the memory leak.
-son
Quoting Harshy Wanigasekara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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
>
> --
> Harshy Wanigasekara, Software guy, Omneon Video Networks.
>
