RE: Memory problems

[Clinton Gormley]

> Why is it that my memory usage is going up and up, and 
> shutting down the two
> major consumers of memory (Apache/mod_perl and MySQL) don't 
> reclaim that
> memory?
> 
> I am running RedHat 6, with Apache 1.3.9, mod_perl 1.21, and 
> MySQL 3.23a.

As an aswer to my question to anybody in a similar position, it turns
out that Linux 2.2.11 (which I am using) is known to have a memory leak,
which is sorted in 2.2.12.

Clint