Hi, Sorry for the OT, and I'm sure this is common knowledge. I'm using some C extensions in my mod_perl application. IIRC, memory used by perl is never given back to the system. Does this apply also to malloc() and free()ed memory in my C extension? Or is that OS dependent? Can Apache ever shrink? I ask because I'm using some C extensions that do a lot of memory allocating and freeing of somewhat large structures. I'm running under Linux and Solaris 2.6. Another memory issue: I'm using File::Cache with a cron job that runs every ten minutes to limit the amount of space used in /tmp/File::Cache -- it seemed better than using an Apache child to do that clean up work. But on Solaris /tmp is carved out of swap. Do you think it's risky to use /tmp this way (since full /tmp could use up all swap)? Thanks very much, Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
