On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 11:51, Jay Hannah wrote: > If we're using mod_perl (and startup.pl) correctly what ballpark > memory footprint should we expect to see when we run, say, 10 > simultaneous clients against the server? > > Should we expect a RAM footprint something like > 10 30MB httpd's > 10 30MB perl's > (600MB total) > > ? Or should we expect something more like > 10 30MB httpd's > 10 4MB perl's > (340MB total) > > ? Or should there be no perl processes running at all because perl is > embedded in httpd?
There will be no separate perl processes running. The httpds will not really be taking up 30MB of RAM, because of copy-on-write. Read this for more details: http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/performance.html#Sharing_Memory - Perrin -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
