Thanks Jeffa, for pointing that out. I'm finally starting to realize the benefits of modules and objects(after 2 years of functional hacking :-) ). So I was just experimenting with setting up simple modules. But your posted code makes me think about taking the next step forward toward OO-modules. By the way, what I was doing was trying to convert my code snippet at linux memory leak monitor linux memory leak monitor to a module.

I found it easy to make a non-OO module with:

use MeMmonitor;
&MeMmonitor::init($$);
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or

use MeMmonitor1;  
my $m = MeMmonitor1->new($$);
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but my idea was just to use

use MeMmonitor;
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and have that do it all with no other statements. Well I started to play with passing the $pid to the module, then realized that both module and script shared the same pid, so it just became an academic question. I can't sleep at night when I have unresolved Perl questions :-) .