> Is there anyway to have the parent apache process log all > creations/exits of the children? This way I could setup an access log > with the PID of each child and then trace back all requests served after > it's death.
recipe 17.5 in the cookbook describes how to do this. basically you can hook into the PerlChildInitHandler and PerlChildExitHandler phases with some sort of marking mechanism similar to the code here http://www.modperlcookbook.org/code/ch17/Cookbook/LogChildren.pm HTH --Geoff