[rt-users] HTML::Mason issues with mod_perl DSO .. ?

[Vivek Khera]

>>>>> "FA" == Forrest Aldrich <forrie at forrie.com> writes:

FA> I'm wondering if that issue is still applicable, and what the specific 
FA> issues are.  The platform I'm running is FreeBSD-4.8.   I posed this 
FA> statement to someone on the mod_perl mailing list, and they asked me to 
FA> elaborate on what the problems were.

The *only* issue I encounter in FreeBSD is a massive (~40Mb) memory
leak when doing a restart (SIGUSR1 or SIGHUP) of Apache.  The
workaround is not do do that ;-) Seriously, just stop/start apache
instead and you're golden.  The mod_perl DSO runs perfectly fine and
pretty darned fast.  If it weren't I'd be in there hacking it up so
that it did work fine, and use my mod_perl commit priveleges to make
it distributed that way.

Of course, you still need to follow the suggestions in the most
excellently written (if I do say so myself...) mod_perl_tuning doc
that comes with it.  My favorite way these days it to use mod_proxy
and mod_rewrite to selectively send requests back to the mod_perl
backend.  For RT, you just send everything (no need for mod_rewrite)
and it works.

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