memory usage in mod_perl

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:48:27 +1100 "Bradley Baetz" <bbaetz at acm.org>
wrote:
> Perl does free up memory unless you end up with cycles; strictly
> speaking its libc/the kernel that won't ever free it up.

	No, it's perl that doesn't return it to the kernel:

	http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/performance.html#Memory_leakage

> Not across requests, though.

	Right, we don't manually cache anything across requests.

	-Max