I'm not sure what version (perl, CGI) you're running, but I don't seem to be able to duplicate the problem in either of my two environments: 
   WinXP:
perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
Binary build 631 provided by ActiveState Tool Corp. Built 17:16:22 Jan
+  2 2002
$CGI::revision = '$Id: CGI.pm,v 1.49 2001/02/04 23:08:39 lstein Exp $'
+;
$CGI::VERSION='2.752';

   Solaris 8:
perl, v5.6.0 built for sun4-solaris
$CGI::revision = '$Id: CGI.pm,v 1.19 1999/08/31 17:04:37 lstein Exp $'
+;
$CGI::VERSION='2.56';

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Neither of the boxen had leaks running the following: 
use strict;
use CGI;
$|++;

my $ct = 0;
while (1)
{
   $ct++;
   if (1)
   {
      my $cgi = new CGI("q=$ct");
      my $blah = $cgi->param('q');
      print " blah: $blah\n";
   }
}

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On the PC I let them run for more than 256 seconds (256 MB RAM) and I monitored the Solaris version using top with no visible memory leaks. You might try running my code and see if it leaks as well, but I don't think CGI.pm is the cause.

--Jim

In reply to Re: Memory leaking? - CGI.pm by jlongino
in thread Memory leaking? - CGI.pm by daviddhall

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