use Perl

But for practical purposes of controlling apache process growth, just counting the private memory is the right thing to do (or counting all the root process's memory + just private from the kids to get a reasonable total.)

I'm curious to know just what you are seeing shared in apache children that isn't copy-on-write memory?

Thanks are due to both you and Andreas.

Makes me think "rising star"; not a bad thing at all.

"the same or similar" is a hard test. Work is being done to try to identify any reused passwords (not limited to the published ones).