I have just started getting into mod_perl (v2) and I need some help. I'm not getting the expected behaviour from the script that follows.

My module is loading and executing as I'd expect, however it's reloading upon each call from the browser. AFAIK, mod_perl is supposed to load the module once when Apache starts up, and then it should call the handler() once for each request from a browser.

This was the impression that I got from what I've been able to read. However I could be wrong. Am I?

If I'm right, please take a look at my code and let me know where I went wrong. Let me know why it reloads my script every time I call the directory in which it sits.

My .htaccess says: 
SetHandler perl-script
PerlResponseHandler Some::Module

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My script is as follows. The warn() line is there so I can see from the logs (tail -f) when the script it reloaded: 
package Some::Module;

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI;

use Apache::RequestRec ();
use Apache::RequestIO ();
use Apache::Const -compile => qw(OK);

# Log the loading of this handler
warn("Reloading the handler.\n");

# Code snipped to create a DBI object
# Code snipped to create a Cache::File object
# Code snipped to create a HTML::Template object

#---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-
# Master apache query handler
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-
sub handler {
    my $r = shift;
    my $c = new CGI;

    $r->content_type('text/plain');
    print $c->param('output');

    return Apache::OK;
}

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P.S. Have I done anything that is against the mod_perl recommended way to do it?

Cheers!
Rick
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