cgi buffering-sleeping problems.

All,

In my defense i have spend all day looking everywhere and trying my best to
implement some suggestions I have read.. NO GO Please redirect me to a FAQ
or something I can not find..:-(

Problem: Porting perl 5.003 cgi-script on HPUX apache 1.3.1 to Red Hat
Linux 9 with Perl 5.8, apache2.

The program compiles and "runs". The issue is that the print statements are
hanging in a buffer ( I think). The program does not exit.

I have placed $| = 1; before every print statement. No go.

A grep of the active processes shows my cgi script "sleeping" as denoted by
the "S" parameter.

Is this an apache problem??

John