Most Wise Monks I recently added a post about Modules not going out of scope click here to view. After looking further into this I believe I made a mistake assuming the problem was to do with Mod_perl. Further investigations into the code (I didn't write the original code I so please don't slate me too much) I saw that within my session class it created a new object of type community, passing a reference to itself. 

sub community {
my $self = shift;
$self->{'community'} = new Community($self);

}

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and in the startup of the Community class it does 

sub new {

my($class, $session) = @_
my $self = { };
bless($self, $class);
$self->{'session'} = $session;

}

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Would I be right in saying this is causing a memory leak ? I need to be able to access the methods of the session object within the community object, so is there any way of accomplishing this without causing this memory leak ? I know I need to break this circular reference but not sure how to !! I looked on Super Search and found some similar nodes memory leak however they didn't solve my problem. I guess this problem is indeed whats causing the error logs to fill up with 
Attempt to free unreferenced scalar !

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Thanks in advance

In reply to Is this a Memory leak ? by ropey

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