I have a script that runs 7 days a week 24 hours a day monitoring oracle databases. As time goes on, it eats up more memory. The script would run for about a day and a half before crashing. I installed the latest version of perl and the DBI/DBD modules for oracle. The script will make it about 3-4 days before failure. I can see the memory size grow as the script runs. I assume, that I am not de-allocating something properly? My questions are... 1. Is there anyway to determine what I am not de-allocating properly. 2. Is there anyway to easily have the script restart itself after a certain period of time or a threshold is met? 3. Is there anyway to be sure you are de-allocating objects/variables properly? Thanks Robert

In reply to any way to control a memory leak by rdww

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