On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 19:35 +0200, Andreas Rieke wrote: > as the memory is even gone after apache with mod_perl has been stopped, > I do not think that this really helps. I do know that the kernel should > recover all the memory when processes stop even if these did not free > the memory, thus it seems that the kernel is responsible for that > behaviour. However, I have seen these strange things on several kernels > (2.4, 2.6) from different distributions (Redhat, SuSE) so that I can not > believe that this is in fact a kernel problem.
I don't understand what you're saying. You don't think it's mod_perl because stopping apache doesn't help, but you don't think it's the kernel either? It must be something. Get some monitoring on your system, reboot it and start fresh, and watch what happens. See what takes the memory. - Perrin