Hi brothers in Perl...

Have possibly fallen into newbie-trap, but anyway...

I am writing a TCP server in perl using threads. When a connection comes in to the server, a couple of threads get spawned. Since starting this effort, I have learned about Perl's propensity for being a little memory hungry, although having said that I am not too worried about it. I am more worried about the fact that memory does not get released when a thread terminates. I have noticed this consistently with async {}; blocks. I understood that when a thread ends, and effectively 'auto-detaches' itself, then the garbage collector should clean everything up relating to that thread. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to happen, and the memory footprint of my poor server just keeps on growing!

Anyone got any idea how I can force the GC to clean up my threads properly? Am using 5.8.5 on FC3

Forgive me brothers, I appear to have sinned...

cheers,

Mark

In reply to Gregorian Garbage Collection... by edwar64896

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