Re: Getting at server's MaxClients setting?

Bas A.Schulte wrote:
> Geoff,
>
> On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 03:07 PM, Geoffrey Young wrote:
>
> > in this case, MaxClients looks like it calls ap_daemons_limit to make 
> > the setting, so you may be able to create a subclass that offers up 
> > that API to perl-land.  for more information on how, you can check out 
> > the slides from my recent ApacheCon talk:
> >
> > http://www.modperlcookbook.org/~geoff/slides/ApacheCon/oo-mod_perl-printable. 
> >
> > ppt.gz
> >
> > hmm... sounds like another good idea to add to my next talk :)
>
>
> Well, for the moment, I'll grep for it in the current httpd.conf ;)
>
> Just thought I'd ask in case I was missing something obvious.

nope, you didn't miss anything.  unfortunately, mod_perl 1.X does not 
offer up the entire Apache API to perl land (though the intent of 2.0 
is to do just that).

actually, I just whipped up a module that offers get/set for MaxClients:

http://www.modperlcookbook.org/~geoff/modules/experimental/Apache-MaxClients-0.01.tar.gz

it's not perfect (it doesn't offer the checks that the MaxClients 
directive does), but it seems to work.  with a little effort, I 
suspect it could be worked out so that you don't need a request 
object, but rather an Apache::Server object.  however, it shows how 
easy mod_perl makes it to open up the Apache API where you need it.

--Geoff