Hello Folks

I have something very strange happening here. The .fcgi script runs ok - well, almost, some memory leaks I canīt figure out how to solve - but then, after updating the code through ftp, it stops responding, gets stuck and starts returning 500 errors after a long wait. I issue the "top" command at shell, but there isnīt any process for this script anywhere.

Then I go check if it runs in the command line and it does! Smoothly! Only doesnīt at the web!

So, as I have other test script that IS running perfectly from the web without any problems, I just copied the whole content of the running-perfectly-from-the-web script and pasted inside the problematic script, overwriting all its content. Should work, right? It didnīt! So it isnīt the code (wich is below)! It seems Apache is playing arround with me!

What can I do? You guys know what may cause this oddity??

Thanks

Andre

UPDATE: F*, 5 minutes after posting this the fulfilled script started both working and appearing at the "top". This is about 20 minutes after the massive errors, without me having done nothing. How come???

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

# Loads modules

   use CGI;
   use CGI::Fast;
   use DBI;
   require "./methods.cgi";
   use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser );
   use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday);
   use strict;

   use lib "/home/myaccount/perl-lib";
   $ENV{'PATH'} = "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin";   # (to MIME::Lite)


# Weīre online?

  my $online = 1;
  my $mysqlhost = "mysql.myaccount.com";

if ( $ENV{SERVER_NAME} eq "127.0.0.1" ) {
   $online = 0;
   $mysqlhost = "localhost";
}


# Connects to mysql

   [code]

# Start of CGI::Fast loop

   while( my $q = new CGI::Fast ) {

# Start cronometer
my $elapsed = 0.000; my $t0; my $t1;
if ( $online == 1 ) { $t0 = gettimeofday; }


# Reading parameters


   my $cookie = check_string( $q->cookie( -name => "cookie" ) );
   my $section = check_string( $q->param("section") );
   my $start = check_string( $q->param("start") ); defined $start or $
+start
= 1;

      my $start_mysql = $start - 1;
      my $rec_p_pag = 30;


# Global vars

      my $now = lc formatdate (time);


# Balizamento da aįão, conforme a section solicitada

   if ( $section eq "this" ) { this(); }

   else { that(); }


# end of chronometer
if ( $online == 1 ) {
$t1 = gettimeofday;
$elapsed = $t1 - $t0;
print $elapsed;
}

sub this {


   # Query

      $dbh->do ( ...query  );

   # Loading hash

      my %things = load_hash_things();

   # starting the html

      print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

...html

}

#############
# that
#############

sub that {
 ...

}


} # END OF CGI::FAST LOOP
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