In addition to what has been said above, memory usage will stay at whatever peak level your program has used. There are a couple of tricks you can use to minimize the gain, like reusing variable names so as not to incur more memory allocation. Generally, if you expect memory gain problems, design your program to fork off the heavy work, and when the fork finishes, all memory is returned to the system.

I don't quite understand why Perl can't incorporate some malloc and demalloc methods to allow forcing of memory release within a program. Surely it could be done. It's so easy in C.

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In reply to Re: Unexplained memory hogging by zentara
in thread Unexplained memory hogging by richardwfrancis

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