The hash can't be printed otherwise. It's a deep tree and just print'ing it would just give the top level keys and HASH(0x12345). Sorry I only have psuedo code. The actual program is huge[TM]. Although I could try to make a junk program that does nothing except assign to %datahash.

The %datahash tree essentially looks like: 

(
  "index",
  {
    baseip   => "1.2.3.4",
    deviceid => "81F1FD9964973BB63B3446881F901AF5",
    sysname  => "router",
  },
  "routes",
  {
    "0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.2.3.4.5"         => {
                                             ifindex => 0,
                                             mask    => "0.0.0.0",
                                             net     => "0.0.0.0",
                                             nexthop => "2.3.4.5",
                                             proto   => 3,
                                             type    => 4,
                                           },
  },
  "interfaces",
  {
    1 => {
           ARP           => 3,
           ifAdminStatus => 1,
           ifAlias       => "",
           ifDescr       => "FastEthernet0/0",
           ifIndex       => 1,
           ifOperStatus  => 1,
           ifSpeed       => 100_000_000,
           ifType        => "ethernetCsmacd",
         },

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I found the page that talked about the hash of hashes problem. It's http://www.chat11.com/Perl_Memory_Usage . Ring any bells?

In reply to Re^2: Massive Perl Memory Leak by wagnerc
in thread Massive Perl Memory Leak by wagnerc

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