On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 08:33:07PM -0700, Douglas Leonard wrote:
>  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.

I can confirm this behavior.  

apache 1.3.12, mod_perl 1.23, Red Hat Linux 6.2, perl 5.005 (rpm)

Compiling with mod_so, but static mod_perl results in leakage, without
mod_so (totally static) results in no memory leaks.

-- 
Paul Lindner
plindner@[...].com
Red Hat Inc.