I believe this is not related to Class::DBI but rather your version of perl. I get memory leaks with ActivePerl 5.6.1 (Build 633 on win2k -- about 2k per second). However, with ActivePerl 5.8.0 Build 804, I get no such leaks. BTW, I used Class::DBI::SQlite for testing purposes(not that it would make any difference). I'm sure if you look around you'll stumble on mention of this bug (i hope -- i vaguely recall tye(or t?) mentioning a bug related to the for loop not freeing lexicals -- this is probably the same thing).

update: I messed around a little with Devel::Leak (adding the relevant bits around the for-loop, and changing the number of iterations to 1000) 

5.6.1 => BEFORE(30692) AFTER(30808) => 116
5.8.0 => BEFORE(29653) AFTER(31774) => 2121
So the loop creates approximately 2005 more scalars in perl 5.6.1, which does seem to confirm the memory leak theory.

update: nice followup -- it's too easy to make memory leaks in perl and XS -- i'll give it a closer look later (examine my DBI/DBD-SQLite versions and so on).

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In reply to Re: Class::DBI and create: program memory just grows and grows by PodMaster
in thread Class::DBI and create: program memory just grows and grows by shenme

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