On 3/27/06 6:21 AM, "Tom Schindl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please note that this is not only true for Image-Creation but also if
> you are restoring large string contents in a variable (e.g. after
> processing a file-upload).
>
> Tom
>
> Frank Maas wrote:
>> Tom,
>>
>>
>>> As a sidenote often it is not really desired/dangerous to run image
>>> creation as a mod_perl handler because of the nature of perl, memory
>>> allocated once is never freed until the process shutdowns or is killed
>>> (by your Apache::SizeLimit handler).
>>
>>
>> Ah, you got me worried there... How in your opinion should one do creation of
>> images in a mod_perl environment. Think of captcha's, on-the-fly images,
>> etc.?
>>
>> I am very interested to hear opinions about this (just before I am going to
>> use this heavily ;-).
Can you fork off a separate process to do this (that will die once it is
completed)?
Sean
