[GMOD-devel] Memory leak in gbrowse

[Lincoln S. <ls...@cs...>]

Hi All,

Recently Fiona Cunningham, who is using gbrowse for the HapMap web 
site, reported to me that gbrowse seemed to have a memory leak, and I 
discovered she was right.  As it turns out, Bio::Graphics leaks some 
memory each time it creates a new glyph.  This is only an issue for 
people who use gbrowse in a persistent environment such as mod_perl.

This problem is now fixed in the CVS versions of bioperl and gbrowse 
and will (hopefully) be part of gbrowse 1.58 and bioperl 1.4.  If you 
really need this fix I encourage you to get it.  Otherwise, since the 
code has been changing a lot recently, you might want to wait for the 
release.

Lincoln