I had the same issue on Linux.  My build had mod_perl compiled in static
but mod_so was also compiled in.  PerlFreshRestart was off, I didn't have
any <Perl>  sections, and no modules were loaded dynamically.  My root
process would grow by about 1MB each time it was HUPed.  Something about
mod_so was causing it to grow even though every module used was staticly
compiled in.

I tried everything I could think of when compiling to have mod_so compiled
in without having memory growth problems, but eventually I gave up and
eliminated it from my build.

<Douglas Leonard> 
<dleonard@[...].com> 

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Doug MacEachern wrote:

>  > I have a static Solaris compilation, and have the same problems 
>  > where the parent seems to grow by 1M each HUP.
>  
>  that's strange, do you have PerlFreshRestart On or some <Perl> sections?
>  otherwise, kill -HUP with a static modperl is a noop.
>  
>