[Xitami] Xitami crashes too much.

[Francis Turner]

Dave Edick wrote:

>since xitami is the only software with a problem on this server, it seems
>that it is the one with the problem. xitami has ALWAYS done this on any of 6
>computers I have ran it on. you can not be telling me that since everything
>else works fine, and that all six computers have hardware problems. so since
>it is crashing an all the computers, nothing else is, what do you recommend?
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I have crashed Xitami fairly frequently on Win2k.  With V 2.5b5 there is 
seems to be a memory management bug where it appears to fail to cope 
gracefully when it can't get any more mmory. I don't know all the 
circumstances behind this bug and I can't realy be bothered to debug it 
(though it seems that the XML processing suffers most from the bug) as I 
have a perfectly good work around. The work around is to not use Xitami 
on a mahine which uses a lot of memory for other things - or if you do 
to expect occasional crashes so automatically restart when required.

I have found that on the whole Xitami uses LESS memory than Apache and 
to be at least as fast for static pages (CGI handling is slwer than 
Apache with mod_perl but simiar to Apache without). But when Xitami 
really wants more memory the computer had best be able to give it some 
so running memroy hogging applications like Microsoft Office products is 
to be avoided!

Francis

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