If it were single threaded, yes. But remember threading is still Wild West territory and Perl has never been particularly concerned with memory stingyness. I can just imagine a situation where threads don't know who's supposed to be doing what with the process heap.

The problem with checking reference counts and similar modules is that u have to know what variable ahead of time to check. If data is in a state where it "should" be garbage collected, then there's nothing to check a ref count of. When variables die Perl only guarantees that the varname is no longer accessible, not that anything in particular has been done with the SV's behind the scenes. In fact the whole Perl memory management philosophy seems too lacidasical. That doesn't work anymore when u have a massively parallel script running for a day and a half. :)

In reply to Re^6: Massive Perl Memory Leak by wagnerc
in thread Massive Perl Memory Leak by wagnerc

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