Hi Jeff, On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Jeff McCarrell <jmcca...@akamai.com> wrote: > I would like to be able to reload the configuration state from new data > without an apache restart.
Given that you say it's only 10MBs, my best advice to you is to stop worrying about sharing, even it means buying a few thousand dollars more RAM. It's the simplest thing by far and might save you a lot of debugging time. Then you can just have child processes check the timestamp on your config file or however you push it out and reload the data as needed in a cleanup handler. If you're determined to share it, I don't think you'll find anything significantly better than what you have. There's no way to share configuration via IPC without eventually copying it into local perl memory. If you try to use the threaded MPM you may succeed in sharing this structure but you will have totally lost copy-on-write and will probably end up using more RAM in the end. It's not that hard to try though, so maybe you'd like to give it a shot. Alternatively, you may decide this data is not all needed all the time and you can store it in something very fast like BerkeleyDB and only read the pieces you need when you need them from the apache children. - Perrin
