Saurabh Singhvi: > the external binary is HUGE in terms of ram usage so i need a way to > keep it loaded in the memory
Maybe this: http://www.clapper.org/software/daemonize/ But it most likely will still deallocate all that memory between runs. Can't you let that binary do more per run? Or just rewrite it? -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>