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From: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@arctic.org>
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Subject: Re: A question on ka requests
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>From child_main:

        while ((r = read_request(current_conn)) != NULL) {

            /* read_request_line has already done a
             * signal (SIGUSR1, SIG_IGN);
             */

            (void) update_child_status(my_child_num, SERVER_BUSY_WRITE, r);

            process_request(r);

#if defined(STATUS)
            increment_counts(my_child_num, r);
#endif

            if (!current_conn->keepalive || current_conn->aborted)
                break;

            destroy_pool(r->pool);
            (void) update_child_status(my_child_num, SERVER_BUSY_KEEPALIVE,
                                       (request_rec *) NULL);


i.e. what are you referring to?  It cleans the request pool.  It doesn't
clean the connection pool until the connection is done.

If you can show a stock server consuming lots of memory on a keep alive
connection I wouldn't mind seeing it.

Dean

On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Igor Tatarinov wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a simple question. Why is it that Apache treats requests coming
> from a keep-alive connection differently from requests from a regular
> connection?
> 
> I mean, why doesn't it clean its pools after each ka request like it does
> after each regular request. 
> 
> Now we have two parameters MaxKeepAliveRequests and MaxRequestsPerChild.
> As I understand, if MaxKeepAliveRequests is set to 0 (and
> MaxRequestsPerChild is not very small) it is very easy to make Apache
> consume a lot of memory (create a bunch of ka connections and request
> a small file so that you don't need a lot of bandwidth).
> 
> As for my problem, I want to have some cleanup done after each request
> (whether it's ka or not doesn't matter). Any way I can do it?
> 
> or am I missing something?
> igor
>