Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

This is a problem that has been happening on and off for several months now and I have no clue what the cause of it is. Being the local CGI guy the sys admin comes to me when several instances of PERL are stuck running on the server. Neither of us know why these processes stay open, but they're taking up serious system resources. What would something like this be a product of? Any advice is greatly appreciated!

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Re: PERL Proccess in NT
by 2501 (Pilgrim) on Jan 27, 2001 at 01:21 UTC
    fastolfe offered me this solution to a similar problem I was having.
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      I'm glad you posted that. I remember reasding it but coultn't find it recently.

      I think that my suggestion (in the same thread) might be useful also.

      It will allow you to have a quick look to see what files etc, the perl.exe process is using. It will allow you to narrow down what the script is doing. This is especially useful if the script isn't running as a result of a webserver. And it's a useful tool to have anyway to tame Windows NT!!

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