I found a general DBI memory leak solution here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13338308/perl-dbi-memory-leak

The answer seems to be the 2 lines:

    print Dumper(  $DBI::lasth  );
    $DBI::lasth ->{ChildHandles} = []; # <-- reset leaking data struct
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but a) it doesn't work without the first print Dumper line. Why is that? And b) it seems to be a bit sporadic. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

Any thoughts?

I'll update you when I know more.

Regards

Steve