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=head1 CAVEATS

As explained above, you cannot PerlModule or use() or require()
Apache::Backhand until *after* mod_backhand (and mod_perl, of course) are
linked into the server.

As explained above, you cannot call load_serverstats() until *after* the
shared memory segment has been created and attached.  The best place to do
this is the child init phase.

It's easy to make mod_backhand coredump by doing Bad Things to serverstats
(e.g. 'foreach (@{$serverstats}) { $_->{'mtime'} = time() }'...)
Even though I've provided the magic to make serverstats writeable, this should
be treated with care.

There is necessarily going to be a small amount of overhead when calling perl
candidacy functions.  I highly recommend calling byAge *before* calling any
perl candidacy functions, because converting the server list into a perl array