Re^3: Tracking down memory leaks


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Re^3: Tracking down memory leaks

by scain (Curate)

on Apr 13, 2005 at 12:58 UTC ( [id://447351]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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That's what I was thinking too. The fact that memory usage slowly grows until the OS kills it is not good. The files I am processing have fairly short lines and it processes the files line by line in a loop. All of the variables inside that loop should be "reusing" the same space, right? Otherwise, what is the point of scoping at all.

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Re^4: Tracking down memory leaks by perrin (Chancellor) on Apr 13, 2005 at 13:39 UTC
All of the variables in that loop will retain their memory between calls and reuse it. However, if you leave that loop, they will still retain that memory. Also, if you load one of them once with 10MB of data, it will stay at that size until perl exits unless you explicitly undef it when you're done with it.	[reply]
Re^4: Tracking down memory leaks by Joost (Canon) on Apr 13, 2005 at 13:01 UTC
I would probably help if you could show some code. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]

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