in reply to make perl release memory

Unless you're OS supports processes releasing memory back to the system while running this can't be done. See. Memory usage and perl for another discussion on this very topic.
HTH

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Re: Re: make perl release memory
by batkins (Chaplain) on Jun 19, 2003 at 14:59 UTC
    How about Win32? Can't I just call free()?

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      Well, a cursory test of: 

         main()
   {
       char *foo = (char *)malloc(1000000);
       getch();
       free(foo);
       getch()
   }

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      Examined in task manager would suggest not, of course this is highly unscientific and someone else might know different. 

      /J\
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      Using free(ptr) will just make available the memory pointed to by ptr in the process' memory pool, not to the OS at large. This memory freeing behaviour isn't Win32 specific, but applies to most modern OSes.
      HTH

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      Perl already does.
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