I don't know anything about mod_perl, so I might be wrong. But I thought mod_perl usually created one or more processes, each of which has multiple threads but a single instance of the Perl interpretter. And that these processes are restarted fromt time to time. This means that the behavior that you saw will only happen for threads that happen to share the same interpretter.

So if you generate enough load for there to be two processes handling your requests, then the variable will only be shared within each group. Also, when the process is restarted, the previous value of the variable will not be propogated to the new process.

Just FYI (if you care to believe me).

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to (tye)Re: Package Globals and mod_perl by tye
in thread Package Globals and mod_perl by shotgunefx

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