Monks.

Please share your wisdom with me in the question of why this code 

    my $rss : shared;
    
    my $thread = threads->create( sub { 
        my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
        my $response = $ua->get( $url );

        $rss = $response->decoded_content
            if $response->is_success;
    } );

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is leaking memory like there is no morning. This code is called every 30 seconds, and adds up roughly 20 megs of memory at each call. That of course leads to out of memory crashes pretty quickly.

Making it non threaded, the problem goes away, but then my Win32::GUI gets unresponsive.

Thanks for your time.

Btw, this is on Windows XP, using the latest Strawberry Perl.


holli

You can lead your users to water, but alas, you cannot drown them.

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