Very interesting, Joe! Thank you for sharing your insights into this and experience with it. Here’s hoping someone can solve/fix the problem with mod_perl threads on Linux.
Regards, Ed On Aug 19, 2022, at 1:44 PM, j...@sunstarsys.com wrote: > The problem is really confined to embedded uses of ithreads, because Perl > itself will mutex-wrap the malloc calls. In httpd, so do all apr_pool_t > calls to malloc. It's when the two memory management techniques are > interacting that there is no application-level way to guard against thread > contention in libc's malloc. > > Mod_perl+ithreads are awesome, when used intelligently. You gain intelligence > from experience trying to use it in a lot of ways that suck, until you hit > one the path that yields success.
