[mp1 and mp2] Grokking memory

[ben syverson]

I don't think I'm getting mod_perl's shared memory scheme yet. I have a 
package that gets loaded in my startup.pl, and it basically does this:

use vars qw(%words);
open FILE ...
while <FILE> {
        $words{$_} = 1;
}
close FILE;
...creating a hash of words from a CR-delimited list of words. The hash 
winds up taking up a few megabytes of RAM, but it's absolutely never 
written to, so I figured it would be shared between the mod_perl 
processes. However, each process grows by a few megs...

What's the best way to get around this?
- ben