On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 09:06 -0700, Thomas Hilbig wrote: > If I try to run the > environment under Mod_Perl (PerlResponseHandler > ModPerl::Registry), the httpd process consumes all CPU > and all memory when I visit the first CGI page that > uses DBI. [...] > The same problem occurs if I change my DBI connect to > use a database on the other (production) system. > I am also using Apache::DBI with a startup.pl script. > I don't see any Oracle connections established after > httpd startup, but the CPU/memory usage is normal and > I don't have any errors.
How is that "the same problem"? Did you mean that the problem goes away when you connect to the other system's database? > The only > difference is (from some previous act of desparation) > I set the permissions on the production server to > all=rx for whole ORACLE_HOME tree. I am running the > httpd server as "Group dba" (same as my oracle files) > to test if it is a permissions problem. It certainly sounds like a permissions problem. Try becoming the user who you run the httpd as and see if you can access the .so file it wants. - Perrin