Re: Perl 5.10.0 Memory Usage

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 06:05:46PM -0400, Bill Birkett wrote:

> I found some circular references, and after removing them, garbage 
> collection worked as expected.
> 
> Strange that Perl 5.8.9 destroyed the objects, but Perl 5.10.0 didn't.

Do you know if 5.10.1 does?

> Is there an easy way to troubleshoot this sort of problem, other than 
> digging through your code?

There are some modules for helping to find memory leaks.  I forget their
names, but search for "leak" on search.cpan.org.

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