memory leaks in perl

[Sergey Kuznetsov]

On April 30, 2004 07:42 pm, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> I have an application that probably does just that: it takes more and more
> memory with time. It is perl. Fortunately, not on Linux but on Solaris.
>
> Is there a way to trace these things, find out what is wrong with perl
> script?
>

    Does it use the hashes?
    If so, is there any unique or random keys?
    If random, probably you are not cleaning unused hash entries, 
you can do it like this:
    delete $hash{$key}
or
    undef $hash{$key}

    Perl quite gentle manage the memory. 

> zb.
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