Hi, I've beeing using WWW::Mechanize 0.71 and kept having memory leak problem. Here is an example script:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use WWW::Mechanize;
use Devel::Size qw(size total_size);

my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new();

while (1) {
  $agent->get(qq(http://www.yahoo.com));

  print "agent size = ".total_size($agent)."\n";
}

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This script will show that the size of the agent object keeps growing fast. Same can be verified using "top".
Changing the object type from WWW::Mechanize to LWP::UserAgent will immediately fix the leak but certainly lost all the wonderful functions Mechanize provides.
I've also tried the latest 0.71_2. Still leaks. I'm using RH9.0 with Perl 5.8.0 on my Linux box. LWP is version 5.76.
I would appreciate very much if any insight from the monks is provided. Thanks in advance.

In reply to WWW::Mechanize memory leak??? by cwchang

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