I'm not sure if this is the case, but don't forget that Perl doesn't destroy anything until all references to it are either destroyed or undefed.

To free up the memory associated with the data, and release it back to Perl, you need to make sure that you also set the original variables that store the data to be undef, and ensure you have no other references to that item that could be keeping it defined.

Just thinking about scoping, both of the variables you undef in your subs are localised with my anyway, and hence will be automatically destroyed when that sub finishes executing.

I can't really say any more than that without seeing more code - I'd suggest first to check for references to the data that could be keeping it defined in memory.

Hope that helps ..
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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Memory leak when using hash 'references' by Tanalis
in thread Memory leak when using hash 'references' by sureshr

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