Perrin Harkins wrote: >>Your system has to be swapping horribly. I bet that the ulimit for >>whoever apache is running as has the memory segment set super low. >> apache is running as me on my unloaded desktop (no way this is going to production until i figure this out). my ulimit -v is unlimited.
> >That's a possibility. I was also thinking that maybe mod_perl was built >against a different version of Perl, possibly one that has a problem >with this particular regex which was fixed in a later version. > both mod_perl and the script are using the debian packaged perl/libperl, the perl -V dump was given in the initial message. oh, and $seq is a normal scalar, not a tied one. -- p