Michael - depends on the OS - but you could look at the Apache::SizeLimit
code which allows kills processes when the memory per process gets large
works well for the system we use at work...
If on a unix/linux based system "top" is your friend as it will indicate
the memory usage per process
I've inherited an existing Apache+mod_perl 1.3.x server. I am not very
experienced with Apache nor mod_perl, so I have to pick up things as I
go along.
Recently I built a new version of Apache (1.3.41) with static mod_perl
1.30, and it seems to work. The problem is that every few days or so
[Sun Jun 15 14:13:59 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] user stas:
authentication
failure for "/": Password Mismatch
[Sun Jun 15 14:14:01 2008] [info] Child process pid=13461 is exiting
[Sun Jun 15 14:14:01 2008] [info] Child process pid=13461 is exiting -
server pu
sh
END in modperl_extra.pl, pid=13
