This section is from the "Practical mod_perl" book, by Stas Bekman and Eric Cholet. Also available from Amazon: Practical mod_perl
It's important to preload modules and scripts at server startup. But for some modules this isn't enough, and you have to prerun their initialization code to get more memory pages shared. Usually you will find information about specific modules in their respective manpages. We will present a few examples of widely used modules where the code needs to be initialized.
 
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