On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:54:30 -0600 (CST) Raymond Norton <admin at lctn.org> wrote: > I am running a fedora core 1 box with perl 5.8.3. the server is > shutting down services because of being out of memory, etc.. When I > run Top it shows perl is dominating 98% cpu time and 70 % of the > memory. This occurs even when httpd is shutdown. Any ideas how to find > out what is causing this? Anytime I find myself wondering "what is that?!" (hopefully rarely), I look to 'ps' first, then 'lsof'. Try: lsof -nP -c perl -Jay