AW: apache2 + mod_perl + Catalyst + Session = Segmentation fault

Stefan Profanter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-perl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> >
> > Looks like you are using Storable to stream out cookies?  Looks like
> > something in there is causing Storable to puke.  I see things like
> > array_call, store_blessed, store_hash... So I'm guessing your passing
> > Storable some kind of object?  Does it have any recursive parts?
> >
> > I googled "perl storable seg fault" and it looks like people have
> > gotten Storable to seg fault before.  I'm not sure if the stack trace
> > is reading objects or writing them.  Maybe you can glean from other's
> > what makes Storable segfault.
> >
> > First figure out if its reading or writing that causes the problem,
> > then try to figure out what part of the object is so upsetting.
> >
> >> 3873            return newSVpv(mbase, MBUF_SIZE());
> >
> >
> > Hum... any chance that is really really big?

Yes, you were right.
I stored a DBIX::ResultSet->single Object in session and it seems this
caused the SegFault. Now I stored only the ID instead of whole object and it
works.

> 
> Maybe look at Sereal as an alternative to Storable.
> 
> https://github.com/Sereal/Sereal/
> http://search.cpan.org/~smueller/Sereal-Decoder/lib/Sereal/Decoder.pm
> http://search.cpan.org/~smueller/Sereal-Encoder/lib/Sereal/Encoder.pm
> 

This seems interesting! Do you know by chance how Catalyst::Plugin::Session
can be set to use Seareal instead of Storable?

Thank you!!!
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