I'm facing a problem that might be deep, or might be a simple RTFM (without knowing what FM to R), and I'm hoping for some help trimming the search space.

In a web application I'm working on, I've noticing that some Apache mod_perl 2 processes are exiting after serving a single request. Since we're using https, I'd rather keep them alive longer to avoid the overhead of setting up a new SSL connection for every request. I'm reasonably sure that it isn't something obvious (e.g., a die() or exit() deep in some method), so I'm crafting some experiments to help make sense of the situation.

What can cause a mod_perl process to exit after serving a single request? Where are good places to start looking

(Apache is configured to expire a child process after it serves several thousand requests, so that isn't it.)

In reply to What causes mod_perl processes to exit? by dws

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