Hi,
I think you got me wrong.
My initial question was basically something like "how could I preserve/give
back memory if needed" (i.e. in rare situations) and the reply turned up
into a "don't use large scalars". (which is relevant, I agree, but was not
directly replying my initial question)
- use Apache2::SizeLimit to kill off a process if it gets too big
(but doesn't work under windows)
Unfortunately, I am developing under Windows, so...
- force your child process to exit after serving the request if you
have to do something big (eg process a large image, generate a PDF)
Obviously, for the second case, I'm assuming that you would do these
things on a small percentage of your total requests, otherwise killing
off your child would be a major bottleneck.
Here, as well, killing a child process under Windows, means killing my whole
Apache server (and so all the serving threads).
So, that's out of the equation.
Lionel.
