Hello all, I am trying to reduce the size of my child httpd processes. We are using modperl, Embperl, DBI and DBD:Oracle. Our current httpd processes quickly grow to 22M or so after a database connection. I read in the modperl docs that modules can be preloaded into the parent httpd process and the child process will then share the code. I setup a startup.pl file to preload the modules I need, but instead of reducing the child process size, all httpd processes are now 22M as soon as apache is started. Modperl is compiled statically into httpd because dynamic loading has some serious problems on tru64. Any help much appreciated, Kevin Riggins dice.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (515) 313-2127