I am considering using Apache 2.2+ and mod_perl to provide authentication logic for a file server. Each file is around 25Mb so each process hangs around for a period of time serving the file provided of course authentication has been correctly provided.
I was planning to use the PerlTransHandler hook because the handler needs to rewrite the url after authentication. the file can then be served as a static file.
Its a very busy server with over 1000 concurrent connections and I was worried about the memory footprint.
what sort of memory usage can I expect? and as perl is no longer required after the authentication can I somehow force the release of the perl module back to the pool to reduce the memory used?
Also would it be best to use worker mpm or the preforked pm and why?

Thanks
DC

In reply to mod_perl memory footprint by DeveloperChris

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