Well, some poking aronud by the sysadmins and they found teh perl was compiled with
> MYMALLOC PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_FAST_STDIO > USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO So it was using 64 bit variables for INT and maybe some other uneeded things. So that might be a big part of it. Joe N. > On 12/20/2009 09:40 AM, Joe Niederberger wrote: > > > 32bit: SIZE=45M RES=32M > > 64bit: SIZE=95M RES=45M > > > > Do these look reasonable? Should I worry? > > Good question. While I haven't made the jump to 64bit for my web > machines there are lots of memory related things that double in size > when you do so. I wouldn't expect it to be a full 2X jump, so something > else might be amiss. Besides the 32v64bit change is all the other > software the same? > > -- > Michael Peters > Plus Three, LP