chromatic,

First off, thanks for the reply. Yes, I know I could make the code shorter, but somebody has to balance out brother Russ in a cosmic sense. :-)

I believe I have been extremely careful moving the code to the database. For development I have been keeping all the code in one text file. The reason I think eval is "filling up" or whatever is that I have spent time moving various subroutines from the text file to the database. The only constant appears to be the size of the code in the database.

Could I be running out of memory with no warning to indicate that? That might be a problem, as I have been using my somewhat underpowered laptop as the development server. And I will definately check $@.

James