[BUG?] Problems with Apache::Status and B::TerseSize

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I'm working with Solaris 2.8, mod_perl 1.99_17, Apache 2.0.52

mod_perl installed fine, and runs wonderfully (and up to twice as fast 
as the current compiled c module).  The one problem we're having is with 
slightly high memory usage, which can probably be alleviated if I add in 
a few explicit exports and remove a few perl modules which aren't really 
being used.

I came across the mod_perl 1 doc at 
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/performance.html#Measuring_the_Memory_of_the_Process

I realise this is for mod_perl 1 and not 2 which we're using, but a lot 
of the documentation works on both anyways.

Having configured Apache::Status correctly and getting listings for the 
various modules which are loaded, I came across a slight bug in 
Apache::Status (line 102) where if there isn't a $VERSION in a module 
Apache::Status barfs, I corrected this with a small fix from

    # if !$opt we skip the testing for the option
    return 0 if $opt && !status_config($r, $opt);
    return 0 unless eval { require $file };
    return 0 unless $module->VERSION >= $version;

to

    # if !$opt we skip the testing for the option
    return 0 if $opt && !status_config($r, $opt);
    return 0 unless eval { require $file };
    return 0 unless defined($module->VERSION);
    return 0 unless $module->VERSION >= $version;


Having got this far, I was now able to display the content and which 
vaiables/exports etc our modules were loading.  However, when I tried to 
hook this into B::TerseSize I continually get the following error when 
trying to start apache

bash-2.03$ sudo /apache2/bin/apachectl start
[Wed Nov 10 18:06:22 2004] [error] Can't locate object method "module" 
via package "Apache" (perhaps you forgot to load "Apache"?) at 
/opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-thread-multi/B/TerseSize.pm 
line 581.\nCompilation failed in require at (eval 3) line 3.\n
[Wed Nov 10 18:06:22 2004] [error] Can't load Perl module B::TerseSize 
for server <servername>, exiting...

I imagine this is because the hooks into Apache::Status in B::TerseSize 
are somewhat out of date with regards to mod_perl 2, has anyone come 
across this problem previously and come up with a solution ?  It is of 
course very prossible (probable?) that I'm missing something very 
obvious, in which case a small hit with a clue bat would be nice too :)

(I figured I would at least ask here before I started digging into 
B::TerseSize and trying to fix it myself).

Thanks in advance
Gareth Harper

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