On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 03:27:36PM -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 14:15 -0400, Rodger Castle wrote: > > You know, I've been experiencing incremental growth my mod_perl2 httpd > > processes, but these are during operation. > > That's normal. As your processes handle requests they will use more > memory and grow. Note that these are not memory leaks, since the memory > is actually being used by perl, not lost. > > > Is there some trick about returning memory to the pool after a > > handler? > > No. Processes don't really return memory on most OSes. That's why the > optimization tips emphasize not taking too much memory in the first > place, e.g. not slurping huge files into RAM.
Ah, I see. We should be doing it in chunks and not all at once. Will adjust to fit and see how that goes. That makes sense. Thank you. Rodger
