in reply to Re: Unexplained memory hogging
in thread Unexplained memory hogging

In addition to what has been said above, memory usage will stay at whatever peak level your program has used.

?? Then how do you explain demonstrate that perl can give back memory to the OS / Re^2: Memory Leak when slurping files in a loop??

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Re^3: Unexplained memory hogging
by zentara (Cardinal) on Aug 23, 2014 at 12:41 UTC
    The releases you mention in those links are very specific, and generally cannot be counted on in writing a Perl script. The key word in those links is "sometimes", which is about as reliable as weather prediction. :-)
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