Hello,

I've run into an issue when stress testing mod_perl that the database connections are going away. I suspect that processes are sharing database connections, causing the issue.

But I've followed all instructions for Apache::DBI, and can't figure this out.

I'm making the connections in the child process and not in startup.pl. But when I examine the $dbh returned by each child from the DBI->connnect, the address is the same for every httpd process.

Firstly, if this is working properly and reconnecting for each process, should the address returned by DBI->connect be different for each child process? I've assumed so, but as far as I can tell the core C code in DBI (dbih_setup_handle) is managing this and is returning the same address. So maybe I'm not understanding what it means to reconnect in the child.

Am I reconnecting properly if the $dbh handles are the same?

In reply to Creating new database handles with mod_perl by lschult2

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