look into Apache::Resource or Apache::SizeLimit which will allow you to set a maximum size for the apache process.
both can be added to your startup.pl --- Plamen Stojanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com