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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Richard Hector <rh...@actrix.gen.nz> on 2002/11/26 09:19:31 UTC
[users@httpd] reload/restart apache with mod_perl
Hi all,
I'm relatively new to looking after apache.
I've been told by the previous admin of the site that it's probably not
a good idea to do a restart of apache (eg for logrotate) when using
mod_perl (and on this site, mason).
To quote:
> restarting apache doesn't clear out perl's variables, and tends to
> cause memory leaks - the processes grow every time you restart,
> sometimes by 20M or more.
Is that the common view? He indicated the same for reload (SIGUSR1).
If so, I thought I would write a little program, borrowing ideas from
cronolog, that I pipe the log output through, and which closes and
reopens its output file when it gets a signal (thereby picking up the
new file created by logrotate).
Does this sound a reasonable plan?
I'm running on Debian 3.0 if that's significant.
Thanks,
Richard
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Re: [users@httpd] reload/restart apache with mod_perl
Posted by Richard Hector <rh...@actrix.gen.nz>.
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 21:38, Issac Goldstand wrote:
> Just pipe the logs to rotatelogs from inside httpd.conf using the CustomLog
> directive, which allows you to log to a pipe - use the rotatelogs binary as
> this pipe...
OK. The rest of Debian uses logrotate, so in some ways I'd rather keep
that than replace it with rotatelogs. Mostly I just want to change as
little as possible.
But rotatelogs uses the same plan I was talking about, doesn't it? So I
can replace rotatelogs in the httpd.conf with my simpler program, and
HUP that from logrotate, which should achieve the same result.
Thanks,
Richard
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Re: [users@httpd] reload/restart apache with mod_perl
Posted by Issac Goldstand <ma...@beamartyr.net>.
Just pipe the logs to rotatelogs from inside httpd.conf using the CustomLog
directive, which allows you to log to a pipe - use the rotatelogs binary as
this pipe...
Issac
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From: "Richard Hector" <rh...@actrix.gen.nz>
To: "Apache Users" <us...@httpd.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 10:19 AM
Subject: [users@httpd] reload/restart apache with mod_perl
> Hi all,
>
> I'm relatively new to looking after apache.
>
> I've been told by the previous admin of the site that it's probably not
> a good idea to do a restart of apache (eg for logrotate) when using
> mod_perl (and on this site, mason).
> To quote:
>
> > restarting apache doesn't clear out perl's variables, and tends to
> > cause memory leaks - the processes grow every time you restart,
> > sometimes by 20M or more.
>
> Is that the common view? He indicated the same for reload (SIGUSR1).
>
> If so, I thought I would write a little program, borrowing ideas from
> cronolog, that I pipe the log output through, and which closes and
> reopens its output file when it gets a signal (thereby picking up the
> new file created by logrotate).
>
> Does this sound a reasonable plan?
>
> I'm running on Debian 3.0 if that's significant.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
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