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

Seeking knowledge on a solution/approach to the following problem: Have a large Catalyst Webapp that runs in FastCGI mode on our web servers. Over the course of a couple weeks, the Perl/fcgi processes grow slowly larger and larger until they overwhelm the memory resources of the server. It's generally thought it's a problem with a memory leak, although it just seems to me that the processes are living a long time and never releasing memory back to the system. Does anyone else have experience dealing with this kind of problem? What's the best approach?