[Petal] Another reason to choose Petal....

[William McKee]

If you monitor the mod_perl mailing list, you'll have seen Josh's recent 
updates to his benchmarks. I found his comments about mod_perl apps that 
leak memory rather interesting:

	"Set MaxRequestsPerChild to 100 for applications that seem to leak
   memory which include Embperl 2.0, HTML::Mason, and Template Toolkit.
   This is a more typical setting in a mod_perl type application that
   leaks memory, so should be fairly representative benchmark setting."

I'm surprised at such a low setting. How much memory are these 
applications leaking?!? Although I haven't benchmarked my code yet, I'd be 
amazed to see memory leaks that require such low maxrequests settings. My 
Apache setup sets MaxRequestsPerChild to 0. Perhaps I'm overly optimistic 
about my code. What are other mod_perl/Petal developers using? Is this yet 
another reason to choose Petal?


William

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