Here you are: 
use strict;
use threads;
use warnings;

use Win32::GUI qw();
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $window = Win32::GUI::DialogBox->new( -title => "Test", -name => "T
+est", -onTimer => sub { return poll() } );
my $use_up_some_memory = join( "", "x" x (1024 * 1024 * 20) );

$window->AddTimer( "T1", 20000 );
$window->Show;

Win32::GUI::Dialog();

sub poll
{
    my $rss : shared;
    print "polling\n";
    
    my $thread = threads->create( sub { 
        my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
        my $response = $ua->get( 'http://www.mektek.net/mekmatch/listS
+erversRss.mkz' );

        $rss = $response->decoded_content
            if $response->is_success;
    } );
    
    while ( $thread->is_running ) {
        sleep(1); Win32::GUI::DoEvents;
    }

    return unless $rss;
}

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holli

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

In reply to Re^2: threads causing memory leak by holli
in thread threads causing memory leak by holli

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