Re: Funding [WAS :Re: trying to compile mod_perl against httpd-2.4.1]

Dave Hodgkinson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-perl
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 29 Feb 2012, at 19:33, Dan Axtell wrote:

> 
> Basically I want to have various virtual hosts be reverse proxied to various 
> back end servers (e.g. mod_perl for some legacy apps, a Catalyst app under 
> fast CGI).  I tried this with Nginx and it all seemed to work but what I 
> discovered is that over time the backend Apache processes were using more and 
> more memory, whereas when I go back to a monolithic Apache the memory usage 
> stays pretty stable.

Your fat apache is an application server. Only have sufficient MaxClients to saturate
CPU if you hammer it. Recycle memory with a sensible MaxRequestsPerChild. Make
forking new children cheap by loading the world in startup.pl.

Read Stas's guide.
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