RE: [misterhouse-users] Perl 5.6 and memory leak

[Bruce W. <br...@mi...>]

> any event, I took this as an opportunity to upgrade perl to 5.6
> (build 626). It
> seems to have resolved my problem, but I believe that there was a
> memory leak
> issue with 5.6 I noticed that in the last 36 hours memory usage
> for perl.exe
> has gone from 39MB to 46MB. I never really paid much attention to
> memory usage
> before and have had mh running for weeks at a time with no problems. I was
> hoping to use rrd which I think requires 5.6. Any new info on the memory
> problem? Or should I reinstall 5.5?

Depends if it grows much more than that.   The leak I see with 5.6 is in 30
meg chunks, once a day or so, and I think only some of use see it and only
on windows.

I reckon I'll have to try to narrow the cause down and see if I can recreate
it so the perl wizards at Activestate can fix it.   I keep hoping it will go
away with the next release, but that doesn't seem to have happened.

Bruce