Howdy bros. I have a multi-threaded script using, Parallel::ForkManager, LWP, and DBI/DBD-MySQL, to get the html from blog posts. I have not posted the code because it's completely ordinary: load URL list, loop thru, fork inside loop, get html, connect db, stick html into db, disconnect db. I am running on windoze, activeperl 5.8.8 build 820.

I am randomly crashing wirh Free to wrong pool 225b28 not 51129d98 at c:/perl/lib/constant.pl line -1 One difference between my case and others I've found on Super Search and Google is that my error is popping-up in /per/lib/constant.pl. The others seem to say "on global descruct."

Anyway the posts I found on this say it is because the windoze implementation of perl fork kind of sucks. On the other hand most of the posts on this subject are old. I did find this one thing where a guy thinks the problem is with LWP somewhere.

So basically I am posting to check if anyone knows any more about this or of a way to debug or fix. It's a real pain in the posterior.

Thx......Steve

In reply to LWP, DBI and Free to Wrong Pool error by cormanaz

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