Monks I hope this makes sense - I must say I'm struggling to get my head around it I'm not very experienced with mod_perl. Background My company offers a web product which allows users their own sub domains. All the content of the sub domains are dynamically generated from our database (user has contol over look and feel). The server runs mod_perl and all the Perl scripts and modules are compiled on the webserver startup using Apache::RegistryLoader. The httpd.conf is set up so the first thing that is called when a client accesses the site is index.cgi, this handles what data (i.e what site) to display to the client. There is another handler inside the conf 
<Location /site/>  
SetHandler perl-script  
PerlHandler Apache::ROOT::cgi_2dbin::index_2ecgi 
PerlSendHeader On  
AllowOverride None

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which I guess handles the url rewrite. The problem i'm having is that any modules loaded (and an object subsequently created) within this index.cgi never seems to go out of scope. For instance I have two modules Session and Community, where and instance gets created on every call of index.cgi. Just to see what was going on I added the constructor 
sub DESTROY {
    my $self = shift;
    my $me = ref($self);
    print carp "i'm dying.....$me\n";
}

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to both of the modules, now when the script has finished and the objects HAVE gone out of scope the distructors are not called. However very regularly I get 'attempt to free unreferenced scalar' which coincides with what the perdoc says about this problem. Now when I shut down the webserver I suddenly get a whole load of the modules shut down i.e. 
[Tue Feb 19 11:08:57 2002] null: i'm dying.....Session
[Tue Feb 19 11:08:57 2002] null:  at /dev/null line 0
[Tue Feb 19 11:08:57 2002] null: i'm dying.....Community
[Tue Feb 19 11:08:57 2002] null:  at /dev/null line 0
[Tue Feb 19 11:08:57 2002] null: i'm dying.....Session
[Tue Feb 19 11:08:57 2002] null:  at /dev/null line 0
[Tue Feb 19 11:08:57 2002] null: i'm dying.....Community
[Tue Feb 19 11:08:57 2002] null:  at /dev/null line 0
[Tue Feb 19 11:08:57 2002] null: i'm dying.....Session
[Tue Feb 19 11:08:57 2002] null:  at /dev/null line 0
[Tue Feb 19 11:08:59 2002] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

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Also on shutdoen I get a series of 
[Tue Feb 19 11:11:39 2002] null: Attempt to free unreferenced scalar.

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So it seems the objects never 'automatically' go out of scope !! Has anyone experienced anything like this. I have looked on supersearch but to no avail ! Any guidance will be greatly appreciated.

In reply to Modules not going out of scope by ropey

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