Re: the memory used increases

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Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> I am using mod_perl and I try to initialize every variable before using it
> with "" or undef, but even so, I can see that the memory used by Apache
> increases more and more after using the site.

It's probably because you are doing things that require more memory. 
Actual memory leaks are rare.  However, you can code in a way that will 
minimize the amount of memory you need.  There's lots of documentation 
on this here:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/performance.html#Improving_Performance_by_Prevention

- Perrin