Re: Sockets leaking?

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 01:25:46PM +0000, Stephen Brandon wrote:
> To fix this for the time being, after getting the Connection Reset error I 
> (i) call $ldap->unbind, and (ii) close $ldap->socket()
> 
> This seems to stop the file descriptor problem, but I am concerned that there 
> may be a larger scale memory leak going on.

If closing the socket explicitly is solving the problem of leaked fd's then that does
indicate that there is a bigger problem. Somewhere something is holding a reference
to the socket, or Net::LDAP object.

> - Can anyone shed any light on this?

Doing a Data::dumper of the Net::LDAP object where you are currently doing the close
would show if there were any internal circular references. If there is not
then it must be something outside of Net::LDAP that is holding that reference.

> - Should there be some other method in perl-ldap that does a more thorough, 
> explicit cleanup?

That would not really help. If there is something holding a reference to the Net::LDAP
object, you have a leak no matter how good Net::LDAP is being.

Graham.