On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:03:37PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:32:23AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > > On Wed 14 Mar 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > > > > Hmm, interesting... Why tf did I install apache-perl in the first place? > > > > Because the combination apache + mod-perl had/has(?) a pretty bad memory > > leak? Which was why apache-perl was created in the first place. > > Is this an issue with certain versions of apache & mod_perl? Do you > know if it's been resolved?
It has been 'somewhat' resolved, in both potato and unstable (I -think-). The problem is that a lot of libraries are not good about freeing memory when they expect the program to exit, and thus when they restart they leak a bit. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team "I am croutons!"