Re: [us...@httpd] Apache2::Resource

2010-04-01 Thread ARTHUR GOLDBERG
Eric Good point. Further investigation (snooping with tcpdump) shows that the browser (Firefox 3.5.9) sometimes retries the request. The number of retries appears random. I don't think we've client-side (javascript) code retrying requests, but I don't know. BR A PS. Note that for wget:

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache2::Resource

2010-03-31 Thread Eric Covener
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:55 PM, ARTHUR GOLDBERG wrote: > httpd processes die as expected when their VM size reaches 1000 MB. > > But here's the problem. After the httpd serving the Request dies, a new one > is created to handle the same request. And so on. > I think this is all done in Apache, a

[us...@httpd] Apache2::Resource

2010-03-31 Thread ARTHUR GOLDBERG
Hi us...@httpd As I mentioned in an earlier email, we're running mod_perl on Apache (2.2) on RHEL, using the prefork MPM. I want to protect my server against Perl processes that grow much too large, as they can slow or even freeze the system. Therefore, I'm using Apache2::Resource, adding t