Re: fastCGI, memory leaks etc

Steve Kann (stevek@io360.com)
Mon, 19 Aug 1996 12:20:05 -0400 (EDT) 

From: Steve Kann <stevek@io360.com>
Message-Id: <199608191620.MAA12678@spheara.io360.com>
Subject: Re: fastCGI, memory leaks etc
To: mjs@cursci.co.uk (Michael Smith)
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 12:20:05 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <321878F5.4B081A7D@cursci.co.uk> from "Michael Smith" at Aug 19, 96 03:23:49 pm

> 
> The boy Nigel wrote:
> 
> >Exit your process explicitly after n connections - something like 
> >this at the end of the loop
> >
> >        if (count++ > 100)
> >               exit(0);
> >
> >The problem with your code is first you accepted the connection, then 
> >you dumped out of the processing loop.
> 
> I have tried achieving the desired effect with the following piece of
> perl:
> 
> my($count)=0;
> 
> while (FCGI::accept() >= 0) {
>   $count++;
>    print "Content-type: text/html\n\nCount=$count\n";
>    if ($count > 3) {
>      exit(0);
>      }
> }
> 
> But this gives me a server error every forth time.  Any way of avoiding
> this undesirable effect would be much appreciated.
> 
> Mike
> 

you need to call FCGI::finish() before exit(), like this:
        # don't run for too long.
        $count++;
        print "<!-- fastcgi-process-count: $count -->\n";
        if($count > 5)
        {
                FCGI::finish();
                exit(0);
        }

-SteveK