Hi -- I am getting the following message recurring in my log:
Parent: child process exited with status 255 -- Restarting. followed by the process restart sequence. I have tracked it down to a call to $r->content which doesn't seem to return properly. It would appear that 1. The POST request has Encoding-type: chunked (message total length is ~5kb); 2. The client sends the HTTP headers, then pauses 3-4 seconds while it generates the body of the message (confirmed with WireShark); 3. So when I call $r-content, when it succeeds I see a 3-4 second pause before it completes; 4. If another request arrives during the call to $r->content, the process aborts and restarts - I assume it is interfering with the read() call in $r->content. Since the pause is so long, it is very likely to be interrupted even though I only have 5 clients currently :( Given the the chunked implemenation in mod_perl 2.0 is apparently incomplete, have I struck one area where this affects the result? Can anyone make suggestions as to how I can work around this problem? I wondered about maybe moving my handler to the log phase (currently it's a Response handler), by which time I assume the entire message must be available, but it seems like a major kludge and presumably would lead to other issues anyway. Or is there some multi-threading thing I should have done - currently I have not really done anything specific... I am using Apache2.2 on Win7 (no flames please :)), with ActiveState Perl "(v5.12.2) built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread". Andrew
