Following up on a previous posting (Uncollected garbage leads to swapping ...) I have (finally) isolated the cause of my leaking memory :) A code snippet illustrating the problem is posted below. Running this progam in one window while "watching" vmstat in another window should make the problem pretty clear (the "sleep" is included just to prevent the sample from locking up anybody else's computer :) My configuration is: Perl 5.8.0 as supplied with RedHat 9 running in 512MB

If I have overlooked something, PLEASE berate/enlighten me ! Otherwise, I have not seen any reports of this problem and would appreciate it is someone could post a trouble report in the appropriate place. Thanks ! 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use List::Util qw(reduce);

sub reducer {
   my @d = (6,7,8,9);
   my $m = reduce {$d[$b] < $d[$a] ? $b : $a} 0..3;  # find smallest
}

for (;;) {
   for (my $i=0; $i<10000; $i++) {
      reducer();
   }
   sleep(1);
}

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