Re: Apache2::SizeLimit for threaded MPM's

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Mark Copper <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Sorry for the noise; thanks for the gentle reply.

No worries; I looked in the Changes file first before diving into the source.

There's a release candidate available for 0.94 if you want to download
the source and take it for a spin on your setup:

http://people.apache.org/~phred/Apache-SizeLimit-0.94-rc1.tar.gz

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> MC
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> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Fred Moyer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Mark Copper <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Do the the Apache2::SizeLimit modules released this year support threaded MPM's?
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>> From lib/Apache2/SizeLimit.pm:
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>>  31 die "Apache2::SizeLimit at the moment works only with non-threaded MPMs"
>>  32     if Apache2::MPM->is_threaded();
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>> Threaded MPMs make life more difficult here.  You want to eliminate
>> the particular interpreter that exceeds the specified size, but does
>> that mean you just kill the thread which the interpreter is in, or do
>> you restart the entire httpd process?  There is also multiplicity to
>> consider, which if I recall correctly is multiple interpreters per
>> thread.
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>>>
>>> I can't see what version is installed under Debian Lenny mod_perl2,
>>> but I imagine it's .91.  At any rate the installed docs contain the
>>> caveat against threaded MPM's which seems to have been removed, but I
>>> don't see anything about it in the CPAN module changes file.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Mark Copper
>>>
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