Re: Potential dbi memory leak.
Steve Cookson - gmail <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.general |
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Hi Again On 26/05/15 10:13, Tim Bunce wrote: > Note that the ChildHandles array holds weak references and that 'from > time to time' the old slots get freed up. This isn't a leak, it just > appears to be if you're not familiar with the caching that DBI does > internally. You can rest assured that if the DBI did have a real leak > a) a great many people would be affected and b) it would get fixed very quickly. > > I think 'from time to time' is every 120 or so newly created child handles. Could I suggest that "/array holds weak references/" is changed to /"array holds a history of weak references" /Or something to explain the idea of a growing hash. I misinterpreted your reply at first. Thanks again, Regards Steve.