On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 21:48 +0100, Len Kranendonk wrote: > We're using a global %session hash, which is undef 'fed when the session is > closed. > I'm not reading in large data sets, but even if I did that should grow the > child process, > not the parent process, right ?
Right. > The application I'm talking about is WebGUI, a CMS written in perl. I've > mailed the > WebGUI list earlier today. It seems that the people running on Linux don't > have the > problem that's causing me pain. That's why I start to believe that it's a > FreeBSD/mod_perl issue. It may be a problem with the way FreeBSD reports memory usage rather than true growth of the parent process. > The problem is not limited to WebGUI, I also have it on two boxes that serve > football > results. The only thing that's running there is SOAP::Lite, HTML::Template, > XML::Simple > and Cache::FileCache. Are you using IPC::SharedCache for your HTML::Template caching? - Perrin
