Hello Monks,

I'm looking for some wisdom and insight into Apache 1.3 and mod_perl.

My boss and I got into a discussion about proper web server setup and how mod_perl is used and we both aren't very suave when it comes to web admin.

Here's the scenario:

Apache 1.3
MinSpareServers 10
MaxSpareServers 20
StartServers 20
MaxRequestsPerChild 10000
MaxClients 500

We're running into the problem where we've got 20 apache children processes running which keep getting larger and larger as perl outputs our dynamic pages, all of the code is stored in RAM which is allocated to each apache process.

We do a lot of serving of PDFs and the way it's done (I don't have the code in front of me, so forgive me) is something like:

 while (<FILE>) { print @_; }

Would the size of the file be stored in memory along with the compiled code?

Also, any input on the Apache directives would be appreciated.

Thanks and all the best!

In reply to Perl and Apache 1.3 by Heffstar

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