Hi monks,

I am currently writing a program that pulls some info off a web page, processes it, then whacks it into a database. It has to be fairly punctual and run every 5 seconds. As this process can sometimes take a few seconds, sometimes more than 5, I have decided to set each 5 second read as a new thread.

I am currently experiencing a problem of once a thread has finished it isn't releasing the memory, and the memory usage gradually increases as more threads are created. I have tried detaching the thread with a return() at the end of it, no joy. Exit() just kills the parent process. I have also tried waiting for say 20 seconds and killing the thread externally, e.g. $thread->exit().

I am currently using the threads module.

Any ideas?

Cheers!

In reply to Multithreaded memory usage by bingohighway

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