Dear monks,

I'm sorry for my awful English, hope you'll forgive me.

I wrote a program using Net::Server::Prefork module that works fine but shows a strange quirk: I understand that whenever the server spawns more than max_spare_servers process, if I stop sending requests it should kill the exceeding processes.

Instead, this is what I find in syslog>

May 10 23:24:04 localhost tme[7967]: Processing diff (0), Waiting diff
+ (-2)
May 10 23:24:04 localhost tme[7967]: Killing "2" children
May 10 23:24:04 localhost tme[7967]: Starting "1" children
May 10 23:24:04 localhost tme[8470]: Child Preforked (8470)
May 10 23:24:04 localhost tme[7967]: Starting "1" children
May 10 23:24:04 localhost tme[8471]: Child Preforked (8471)
May 10 23:24:44 localhost tme[7967]: Processing diff (0), Waiting diff
+ (-2)
May 10 23:24:44 localhost tme[7967]: Killing "2" children
May 10 23:24:44 localhost tme[7967]: Starting "1" children
May 10 23:24:44 localhost tme[8483]: Child Preforked (8483)
May 10 23:24:44 localhost tme[7967]: Starting "1" children
May 10 23:24:44 localhost tme[8484]: Child Preforked (8484)

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And this go on indefinitely: every 40 seconds the server kills two children (but it was only one over the max_spare_servers quota) and then immediately respawns them!

I tried google, I read the (not so complete) documentation of the module and I even tried to browse the sources of the module but I found nothing.

Does anybody know if this is a known bug of the Net::Server or if there is a known condition in which this behavior is t be expected?

Thanks in advance

In reply to net::server::prefork fork too much by psini

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