On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 20:34 +0100, Len Kranendonk wrote: > Right after starting apache (with preloading the needed perl modules) > the httpd root process is about 40MB. > After several days it has grown to over 100MB.
How are you measuring this? > My understanding is that the parent process is not supposed to serve > any requests itself. That's correct. Are you using Cache::FastMmap, or anything else that does memory-mapping of files? That might yield an apparent larger size if the parent process is one of the ones that has the mmap'ed file open. - Perrin