On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 18:55 -0400, Jonathan wrote: > fork() within mod_perl > Probable No. > online docs suggest this will fork apache+modperl, > which would > take up too much memory > child processes will persist as zombies when complete > > i've got to be missing something
The memory would be shared by CoW and I haven't seen that zombie problem. I usually handle this kind of thing with a job queue system though, i.e. the same way you did with your Python thing. Incidentally, I don't see why your Python job queue can't just execute a Perl script to do this job. - Perrin
