Hi all. I have a reasonable large application, that runs under Mod-perl on Apache2.
Here I try to preload the modules, so they are loaded into the primary process of Apache. However, after a few requests, all the precompiled modules use about 60 megabytes of memory (15 mb per process), and it seems that each apache-child is having it's own set compiled.
Is there a way to let mod-perl share it's compiled modules from the main proces?

Next i tried to have only the most-usedmodules loaded, and cached by mod-perl, and the less used (and bigger) modules compiled run-time.

I tried to remove the namespace by
undef(%INC{modulename}),
used 'no modulename' and
do ('module.pm'), however the apache::status still tells me that the modules remain loaded.

Is there a way to let mod-perl load a module and free it's memory after use? I know there is the drawback of recompiling it each time we access it, but it is for some bigger and less used modules that i don't want to keep in memory. (ps: i don't want to run them in a non-modperl environment) The preferred solution would be to have the compiled modules shared (so the total application would take about 15 mb at the first startup of apache), but keeps the rest for the server (and application itself). Thanks in advance, Justus Brugman

In reply to (shared) memory and preloading modules using Mod-perl by jbrugger

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