Here is the sample code : 
use strict;

my $base_loc = "/base/location";

my @results = (   'QFU010508.865714.tar.gz'
                , 'AAL_AGG.738208.tar.gz'
                , 'QFU010508.870496.tar.gz'
                , 'QFU010508.870512.tar.gz'
                , 'QFU010508.1017611.tar.gz'
                , 'QFU010508.1018350.tar.gz'
                , 'QFU020508.784543.tar.gz'
                , 'QFU020508.735377.tar.gz'
                , 'QFU020508.784632.tar.gz'
                , 'QFU020508.784637.tar.gz'
                , 'QFU020508.784641.tar.gz'
                , 'QFU020508.869793.tar.gz'
              );

foreach my $tar_file ( @results ) {
    my $path_to_file = $base_loc . "/" . $tar_file;
    my $extracts             =  Archive::Tar->new( $path_to_file );
    print "Goin to sleep...\n";

    sleep(5);
    if( !defined $extracts ) {
        print "INFO: Could not find : $tar_file file or Archive is not
+ valid\n";
    }
    else {
        print "INFO: Processed $tar_file file\n";
    }

#Destroy the object
    undef $extracts;

    print "Object should get destroyed now, sleeping again.\n";
    sleep(5);
}

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During running the above code, we can see that the memory consumption keeps on increasing ( using top ) even after object gets destroyed.

In reply to Re^2: Archive::Tar Memory deallocation problem by bgupta
in thread Archive::Tar Memory deallocation problem by bgupta

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