Wouter van Vliet wrote: > `ps wfaux` tells shows me 20 procs with the "/usr/sbin/-e" command, > hanging under root's httpd each consuming 4.4% mem (abt 30MB). And the > same amount of postgres procs, each with 1.1% (just over 10MB). What > whould this /usr/sbin/-e command be? Good question. Googling for it is difficult, but it did come up with http://www.apache-httpd.com/msg/9491.html , which suggests > This was a bug in versions of mod_perl older than 1.99_14, I believe. > Have you tried upgrading to the latest mod_perl? Note that the current available mod_perl in FC2 is 1.99_12, so it may not have this fix. > (hmm, drifting off from the swapping thing; you guys think I should > take this over to the Apache or ModPerl mailinglist or would anyone > around here know some cool techniques to find leaks in Perl code?) Well, I wouldn't know any such techniques. I'd ask elsewhere (but keep an eye on this thread in case anyone jumps in). James. -- E-mail address: james | "Ok, so your monitor is not working, the screen is @westexe.demon.co.uk | blank, and no matter what you do it stays blank? Do | you see that button on the bottom right hand side of | the screen? Press it. . . ."