Well, it seems you found another reason to be suspicious of threads, especially if you plan to use the script on multiple unknown platforms. On the other hand, it is a bit unusal to spawn 10,000 threads, and a 5 Meg/10000 threads isn't outrageous.

Many nodes have been posted concerning mem gains with threads, usually when complex objects (modules) are used in the threads, and the ref count dosn't clean up correctly. The solution there, is to reuse threads and objects, instead of spawning new ones. So....it seems the lesson is to reuse and recycle if you want to be safe with threads.

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In reply to Re^3: does threads (still) memleak? by zentara
in thread does threads (still) memleak? by faxm0dem

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