Is there a way that I can force mod_perl to re-use buffer memory?

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Published on 2010-03-16T05:15:16Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 13:26 UTC
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Hi,

I have a Perl script running in mod_perl that needs to write a large amount of data to the client, possibly over a long period. The behavior that I observe is that once I print and flush something, the buffer memory is not reclaimed even though I rflush (I know this can't be reclaimed back by the OS).

Is that how mod_perl operates and is there a way that I can force it to periodically free the buffer memory, so that I can use that for new buffers instead of taking more from the OS?

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