[Fwd: [mp2] Perl Sections in .htaccess files leak memory]

[Geoffrey Young <ge...@modperlcookbook.org>]

just forwarding to the dev list so philippe doesn't miss the fun

;)

--Geoff

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Subject: [mp2] Perl Sections in .htaccess files leak memory
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:42:26 -0500
From: Rici Lake <ri...@ricilake.net>
To: modperl@perl.apache.org

In the course of trying to figure out why mod_info does not reveal
directives added in PerlSections (see other email), I stumbled across
the following problem:

I created a simple seven-line .htaccess file, and did 100,000 requests
to a file in the corresponding directory with ab. All processes were
perfectly stable in memory consumption. Then I do the same thing with a
<Perl> section in the .htaccess file. 100,000 requests later my 12
processes had grown from 6.5M to 25.5M

My analysis of this is that mod_perl's perl sections are *always* run
in the pconf pool, rather than running in the request pool as would be
normal for .htaccess files. Consequently, all directive parsing and
config merging will use the pconf pool, effectively resulting in a
permanent expansion of that pool.


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