Re: mod_perl2 memory growth after restart of Apache

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:54 PM, ChristoDeluxe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Looking in the archives, I see people (mostly back a few years) saying that
> people should not use "apachectl restart" or "apachectl graceful" (or
> sending the HUP signal) to restart Apache since it leaks memory.

That was the case in the past.  Maybe someone else has found a way
around it.  I haven't.  One thing you could try is using graceful
shutdown, followed by start.  This actually shuts down, but doesn't
cut off any existing requests.  Another common approach is to have a
load balancer that allows you to take half of your cluster offline and
restart, and then do the other half.

- Perrin