Gregory Matthews wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for the great input on Memory Leaks.  Now that I have 
> a good starting point for tracking down the problem, when I TEST for 
> leaks, or simply check for a continued increase in server memory usage, 
> how do I go about monitoring the processes growth?
> 
> For example, is there a command line tool to use that will allow me to 
> see the process growth upon request reload?  I know that I should run 
> the server with httpd -X, but I don't know how to actually see the 
> memory being used/increased/decreased when the prog is being executed. 
> As I understand it, this is a good indication that there might be a 
> problem.

Apache::VMonitor is great! (well, I wrote it :)

Gregory, before you continue asking more questions... it's all the guide:
http://perl.apache.org/release/docs/1.0/guide/performance.html#Measuring_the_Memory_of_the_Process

so before you ask, check the guide. Use the search if you don't know 
where to look.
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