Re: [Fastcgipp-users] about the Manager class

[Eddie Carle]

On Tuesday 14 April 2009 1:59:14 pm Jean-Christophe Roux wrote:
> 1) I don't understand why this manager class is said in the doc to run an
> "endless loop". It appears that after a while without request from the
> webserver the process vanishes; it does not appear listed  by ps -A. Now,
> if I define a static member in my class deriving from Request and this
> static member acts as a counter of the number of http requests, when the
> process is restarted for a fresh http request, that counter is reset! It
> seems to me that the loop is not endless but has a limited lifespan. How
> can I set the delay between the last http request and the point at which
> the process is killed? Is there a way to have the dealy unlimited and have
> effectively an endless loop? Or maybe there is a better way than setting a
> static member?

Hi Jean,

This issue really isn't related to the fastcgi++ library which is why you're 
having trouble figuring it out. Since you're getting apache to dynamically 
start the FastCGI application for you, it is also killing it when it sees fit. 
So the manager loop isn't ending, apache is sending the app the term then kill 
signals.

> 2) For deployment purposes and to test my new app, I need to kill the
> current process so that the new app is executed right away. For the moment,
> the older app still runs until it is killed as described aboe. Is kill -9
> xyz the right and most appropriate way to kill the current app to make room
> for the new one?

This is always a pain in the ass. Again, it has to do with how apache 
starts/stops FastCGI processes.

If you want complete control over the starting and stopping of the app, look 
into setting up mod_fastcgi or mod_fcgid to talk to it as an external server.
-- 
        Eddie Carle

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