memory usage problem!

[Plamen Stojanov]

Hi all,
I have a ig mem usage problem with perl. 
I load 2Mb data from a database in perl hash and perl takes 15Mb memory. As I 
use this under mod_perl - perl never returns this memory to the OS. I must 
set a little number for MaxRequestsPerChild in order to restart perl 
interpreter not to eat a lot of memory. 
Is there any solution to avoid such memory usage?