Well thanks! Under regular CGI, every time your browser requests a page,
Apache has to find your script, load Perl, compile your script and any
modules you use, run it, and exit Perl. Under mod_perl, all the loading and
compiling is done when Apache starts, not on every request - it's doing far
less work. There's a lot of good info on http://perl.apache.org/ but I know
what it's like when you're too busy debugging to RTFM :)
Yeah, I have read a lot of those things that you wrote many times in
peal.apache.org but I just don't know what is the specific relation to
why it never write the file completely !
It's just how operating systems work - to speed things up, when you
write to the file you're actually writing to a buffer in memory. When
the buffer gets full (usually a few kB), the operating system will write
it all out to the disk. If you close the file, it will also write it
all out the disk. It's simply good practice to tidy up before you quit
your program - previously you were relying on perl to do this for you,
because it's good like that.
cheers
John
@ list, ! $| ;)
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