Here is a image of resources usage:
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/6838/perlfh2.png
The memory grows until I suspend the process (or windows says: Enough memory, Rest in Peace! ;) ).

The "use Win32;" follows: http://img266.imageshack.us/my.php?image=perlokvu7.png

As i said before "I run this scripts with perl v5.8.8 on Windows XP. (Binary build 817, ActiveState, 20 Mar 2006)."

I've tried it with both an empty file and a 49MB file. With and empty file the memory usage grows faster because it forks faster.

I've run the scripts on local files.

Edit: g0n - linkified web links

In reply to Re^2: Lots of memory usage with fork&copy by andreidf
in thread Lots of memory usage with fork&copy by andreidf

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