COM works with reference counting (so does perl). That is usually good. It turns bad if your objects reference its parent. Then neither one will be deleted. Even FreeUnusedLibraries() doesn't help (mind the 'unused' in the name) because they are considered used by the other object. Because many COM-objects need to know their parent, they have a Set...Site() function (mostly the parent is called somthingSite in COM). Before unreferencing, you should call this with a NULL-Pointer, if you called it before to set a Site. Even if the function is called by another name, I would check for retained references.

In reply to Re: cpu, memory, and permissions issues with Win32::OLE by Anonymous Monk
in thread cpu, memory, and permissions issues with Win32::OLE by punkish

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