This section is from the "Practical mod_perl" book, by Stas Bekman and Eric Cholet. Also available from Amazon: Practical mod_perl
Apache keeps track of server activity in a structure known as the scoreboard. There is a slot in the scoreboard for each child server, containing information such as status, access count, bytes served, and CPU time. This information is also used by mod_status to provide server statistics in a human-readable form.
Available from CPAN. See the module manpage for more information.
 
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