[Mimedefang] Embedding Perl in Multiplexor -- good idea?
Lucas Albers
admin at cs.montana.edu
Sun Nov 2 13:16:12 EST 2003
> The big question mark is whether destroying a Perl interpreter really,
> honestly, truly frees up all the memory allocated by Perl. The big
> advantage of the current scheme is that it's highly resilient in the
> face of Perl memory leaks. People routinely leave the multiplexor
> running for months.
> David.
So the important things to consider for this change to have the perl
embedded are:
Pro's:
Use less memory.
Has the biggest effect on high load sights with many slaves?
Cons:
Might slowly leak memory over a period of time.
The only real way to cover up memory leaks is to have a master that
systematically recycles slave processes?
Does that just about cover it?
--Luke
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