Of course, the short term fix, is to lower MaxRequestsPerChild which will hopefully reduce the leakage but won't help performance. Leaks in DBD::Oracle and Oracle's own libraries are not entirely rare. You should send your simple, stand-alone example to the dbi-user's mailing list with your exact version and platform info. John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Memory leak in DBD::Connect() Matt Barringer
- John D Groenveld