Hi, some weeks ago here was the discussion about DSO-mod_perl and leaking; as far as I understand it the solution was, that on SOME platforms (solaris) mod_perl should be build as static.
It seems that FreeBSD is such a platform ;-) I build Apache from the Ports-Collection with mod-ssl -- /usr/ports/www/apache13-modssl -- (with 1.3.20 and 1.3.22) and manually Perl 5.6.1 (NO mymalloc, no compatibility, with mymalloc also tested) and mod_perl 1.26 as DSO with APXS. My mod_perl-Application has a global and resident hash, about 18 MB, which is build in the startup-script. At normal startup, it seems that mod_perl requires TWICE the amount of this hash, and each restart (also graceful) it eats ~18 MB. 1 GB is fast full ;-) The mod_perl from Ports Collection is build also as DSO and has the same problem (with old Perl replaced by 5.6.1). Has someone mod_perl on FreeBSD WITH DSO and without leaking running? If not possible it might be good to include a warning in the Makefiles or mod_perl-Guide etc. I prefer to build Apache from the Ports collection, so at next I'll try to create a Port with static mod_perl ... Ciao Alvar PS: #perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=freebsd, osvers=4.4-stable, archname=i386-freebsd uname='freebsd gnarzelwicht.delirium-arts.de 4.4-stable freebsd 4.4-stable #8: sat oct 6 13:55:41 cest 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:usrobjusrsrcsysmykernel2 i386 ' config_args='' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include', optimize='-O3 -march=k6 -funroll-loops -fexpensive-optimizations -malign-double', cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.3 20010315 (release) [FreeBSD]', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags ='-Wl,-E -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/lib /usr/local/lib libs=-lgdbm -ldb -lm -lc -lcrypt -liconv -lutil perllibs=-lm -lc -lcrypt -liconv -lutil libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags='-DPIC -fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under freebsd Compiled at Oct 23 2001 17:37:29 @INC: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-freebsd /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-freebsd /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .