[Catalyst] memory usage of mod_perl process

[Fernan Aguero]

+----[ Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org> (08.Feb.2007 12:16):
|
| On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:56:09AM +0000, Fayland Lam wrote:
| > hi, all
| > 
| > we are using mod_perl to run our Catalyst App with DBIx::Class and Template.
| > 
| > but the memory usage of each process seems to be 95 m. it's pretty high!
| > we have more 60+ pms.
| 
| Are pms number of entries in %INC?

I think this is the number of .pm modules under your application's
own lib/. Or at least this is how I interpreted it.
 
| I have 464 entries in %INC, but that's hardly a good measurement
| considering how small some of the plugins are. 

yes, not the best way to measure it, agreed.

Fernan

| Top shows:
| 
|   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND              
| 26074 www-data  15   0 72188  51m 6184 S  3.3  5.1   0:07.60 apache2               
| > I want to ask you guys how many memory usage for your Catalyst App? and 
| > is FastCGI any better? which one do you pick for Catalyst? mod_perl, 
| > FastCGI and anything else?
| 
| A lot of people seem to like FastCGI.  I started out using a FastCGI
| setup but restarts were taking a long time (seemed every FastCGI
| process had to compile the application).  I moved to mod_perl and
| much happier now.
|
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