PerlEx Hangs - IIS 6.0 Windows Server 2003 Worker Process recycling

I have a legacy Perl application that I would like to deploy using
PerlEx. For reasons beyond my control at the moment, it uses and leaks
memory like crazy.

I had hoped to deal with this by taking advantage of worker process
recycling in the application pool, but as reported by others, this
doesn't work very well.

a) with multiple worker processes, the web application very quickly
hangs forever. IIS seems to be unable to restart the worker processes
b) with a single worker process, it can run for a few hours. However,
when virtual memory usage is high for the worker process, requests take
several minutes to service. Neither IIS nor the browser time out on
these requests. After a few hours, IIS completely hangs again and
doesn't automatically restart. Clearly this is unacceptable - missed
response or two might be okay, but the application has to be able to
restart.

Other messages to the ActiveState forums have suggested that installing
service pack 2 would solve similar problems, but this does not seem to
be the case.

Does anyone have any further insight into this situation? Isn't it
really strange that IIS can't restart its worker processes?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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Bryan M. Kramer
Email: bryan.kramer@medeagroup.com
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