Hi Monks !

I need your suggestion on something I can't figure out.

So, I am running:
/usr/local/bin/perl -v
This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 3 (v5.12.3) built for i686-linux

and I have the following simple script: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->timeout(2);

$page = 'http://www.sics.se/~joe/bluetail/vol1/v1_oo.html';
use threads;

$total = 0;
while (1==1) {
        if ($total < 50) {
                $total++;
                my $threadname = 'thr'.$total;
                $$threadname = threads->create(\&sub1, $page);
        }
        foreach my $thread_join (threads->list(threads::joinable)) {
                my $res = $thread_join->join();
                print "RES:[$res]\n";
        }
        sleep(1);
}
sub sub1() {
        my ($url) = @_;
        print "\t FETCHED $url\n";
        my $response = $ua->get($url);
        if ($response->is_success) { $content = $response->decoded_con
+tent; }
        else { $content = ''; }

        return length($content);
}

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So.. that thing is leaking memory :(
The script is really simple, but not that simple for me to figure out the cause for the leak.

What I suspect is.. eventually IO::Socket does it...

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thank you in advance.

In reply to perl 5.12.3 + threads + memory leak by kamenpetrov

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