I've been having problems with getting defunct processes from Apache. When quickly refreshing an %ENV printing script that uses CGI simply for the headers, I get many defunct processes. When I remove CGI and manually print out the header, I get about 10% of the defunct processes I got before. I just had the admin upgrade to the lastest CGI.pm and it didn't help much. (Server is running RH 7.1 with Apache.)

Is there a more light-weight version of CGI.pm? All I use it for is param, url_param, and cookie. I'd imagine someone would have thrown together a not-250k version that handles only those as they all serve a similar purpose.

I'd really appreciate any insight you may offer. Thanks.

In reply to CGI.pm Causes Slowdown by Anonymous Monk

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