[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Make sure to "use DBD::Oracle" in your startup.pl or >do PerlModule DBD::Oracle ... that should load up some >Oracle libs in the parent. Also, you *might* try >doing a connect or even an invalid connect to Oracle, >which might grab some extra libs that it only loads >at runtime. > >If you do a connect in the parent httpd to Oracle, make sure >that Apache::DBI doesn't cache it later for the children, >which is why I was suggesting doing an invalid connect >with user/pass like "BADBAD/BADBAD" > Thank you very much, Joshua. I have made some progress and am now seeing 15.8M shared out of 16.7M on the parent. I believe that the problem was that I was doing a graceful restart which wasn't restarting the parent process. Now I have a different problem. When I initially start apache, everything is OK, but when the child processes die (due to MaxRequestsPerChild or me killing them) , the new child doesn't have a database connection and I'm getting "Internal Server Error." I suspect I can sort that mess out after a bit more troubleshooting. Thanks again! Bob Foster