Indeed. Committing transactions and freeing up memory used by Perl are apples and oranges. Sybase has it's responsibility of dealing with it's own transaction-based memory usage and such. I think the problem lies in how to "unpage" that memory Perl just used instead of letting it sit ready to be used again.. Because it may not.

Then again, if he's inserting 200 rows from a hash/array.. undef'ing the hash/array, then creating *another* hash/array with $x rows.. you'd think it'd use as much of the memory as it could from the previous datastructure.. The answer to this, I don't know.

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Memory leak with DBD::Sybase ? by one4k4
in thread Memory leak with DBD::Sybase ? by Anonymous Monk

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