in reply to Killing Apache

There probably is some F::F::R extension that looks into files that could eliminate my greps and readfiles completely.
Yep, and it's waiting right there in the File::Find::Rule POD.. :) I know you said it's throwaway, but for the heck of it (untested):
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use File::Find::Rule; my %uid; my %vm_data; print("Killing $_\n"), kill 15, $_ for map /(\d+)/, File::Find::Rule ->file ->name('status') ->grep(sub { my $fullname = $_[2]; $uid{$fullname}++ if /^Uid:\s*33\b/; $vm_data{$fullname}++ if /^VmData:\s*(\d+)/ and $1 > 16384 +; return $uid{$fullname} and $vm_data{$fullname}; }) ->in('/proc');
What can I say? File::Find::Rule rocks. :)

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