Re: mod_perl2 + fork + DBI = Chaos

On 01/25/2010 02:12 PM, Tosh Cooey wrote:

> Just to make things stranger, after I make a fork and things don't
> happen the way I expect them, subsequent calls to other programs running
> under mod_perl are generating Segmentation Faults. This could be due to
> the fact that the server is running in Europe and the SQL server in
> North America. I would really love to hear that this can cause
> segmentation faults because otherwise I have no idea where they are
> coming from

This wouldn't cause segmentation faults. Network delays and timeouts 
yes, but not segmentation faults.

But the overriding rule is that you can't use database handles opened 
before a fork in the child processes after the fork. You need to close 
those handles and reopen them.

-- 
Michael Peters
Plus Three, LP