Thank you for your responses and I apologize for the format problem in my previous post .
From the point of view of the O/S , I can see that , once I have done work via my script which requires MEM , a large chunk of that MEM may no longer be available to the O/S for concurrently running apps .
My perl app is running on WIN32 / ActiveState Perl 5.8.8 . Can I set any variables which would apply the -DPURIFY after Perl has already been compiled , or the binaries intalled .
Further , while the script is running is there a variable which can be examined which I can use to monitor MEM usage .
Kind regards, Nova .

In reply to Re^3: understanding devel::leak by Nova
in thread understanding devel::leak by nonnonymousnonk

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