Re: detach method doesn't release memory (ithreads)

At 17:47 -0700 4/11/04, Steve Schein wrote:
>I have a Perl program (v5.8.0 on Mandrake Linux 9.0) that spawns a new
>thread each time a user logs in and then detaches the thread when the
>login tasks are completed.  For example:
>
>my $peer_thr = threads->create(\&send_comm_messages, $username)->detach; 
>
>I did a memory test on the program and found that each time a user logs
>in, the memory resources used by the thread (~3MB) are not released when
>the thread detaches.  There are no calculations performed in the thread
>and no values are returned.
>
>I would not expect that this should be the case and was curious if others
>have had similar experiences.
>
>Thank you for your thoughts.

Could you please verify if this problem still exists with Perl 
5.8.4-RC1, currently available from CPAN?


Liz