You have the prepare inside the loop, it should be outside the loop. Prepare once before the loop, then execute many times inside the loop. Don't undef the $sth. If the id is a unique id, i.e. there is only one row to fetch, don't use finish at all (unless your DBD docs tell you to) - it is usually only required when there are more rows to fetch.

Also, you didn't mention which DBD and RDBMS you are using or what platform you are on. It's unlikely that DBI itself is leaking to the extent you indicate but there may be issues with the DBD or the RDBMS or the platform.

In reply to Re: Where are those memory leaks? by jZed
in thread Where are those memory leaks? by ezekiel

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