Re: Shared var between processes

What about IPC::Shareable?  Its for shared memory.  I've used it before,
but not with Apache.

   JE

On Sat, 2017-10-21 at 08:53 +0200, André Warnier (tomcat) wrote:
> On 20.10.2017 17:15, Adam Prime wrote:
> > On 17-10-20 05:17 AM, André Warnier (tomcat) wrote:
> >> On 20.10.2017 10:50, Ben RUBSON wrote:
> >>> On 20 Oct 2017 10:38, André Warnier (tomcat) wrote:
> >>>
> >> I believe that there is much more of a performance hit, when asking the server to set up
> >> an environment ($ENV) for sub-processes, than via the PerlSetVar mechanism.
> >
> > You don't need to use $ENV. If you're using handlers you could use
> > $r->server()->server_hostname.
> >
> > You could certainly create a big hash at startup and grab stuff out of it that way, where
> > the top level key is the hostname.
> 
> Assuming that you wanted to do this, where would you put this big hash, so that it is 
> persistent across requests, and can be accessed by mod_perl handlers ?
> 
> (I have my own scheme to do this, but I'm curious about maybe a better / less "hacky" way)
> 
> If the data that you want to store is just strings
> > though, this might be overkill. If, however, you want to create deeper datastructures from
> > a somewhere, then this would be a perfectly acceptable way to do that. PerlSetVar is great
> > with just strings, but not for anything any more complicated than that. It does have to be
> > static configuration.
> >
> > All the other limitations that André mentioned are completely accurate though.
> >
> > Adam
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