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Of course, if you could track down what type of handle is leaking first (not easy!)

Actually, it is easy. ;-) The sysinternals nthandle utility will tell you.

perl.exe pid: 3980
    4: Thread        perl.exe(3980): 5816
    8: Thread        perl.exe(3980): 3388
    c: Thread        perl.exe(3980): 3604
   10: Thread        perl.exe(3980): 4528
   14: Thread        perl.exe(3980): 1340
   18: Thread        perl.exe(3980): 3316
...

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Re^3: Perl threads test on Windows: how to close thread handles?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 04, 2004 at 04:22 UTC

    Yeah! Once I found the right place to look, http://www.smidgeonsoft.coms PEBrowse showed me the same thing. 

    Process Information:
Kernel Objects:
0004 - Key \KernelObjects\CritSecOutOfMemoryEvent (0xE10085F0)
0008 - Directory \KnownDlls (0xE14BC318)
000C - File C:\Perl\test (0x81CC1568)
0010 - Key HKLM (0xE1138618)
0014 - Directory \Windows (0xE13B7D10)
0018 - Port  (0xE1B25838)
001C - Section  (0xE14DAAF0)
0020 - Event  (0x81EC2FF0)
0024 - WindowStation \Windows\WindowStations\WinSta0 (0x82124AD8)
0028 - Event  (0x821446D0)
002C - WindowStation \Windows\WindowStations\WinSta0 (0x82124AD8)
0030 - Desktop  (0x82203278)
0034 - Key HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Nls\Locale (0xE1C85688)
0038 - Key HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Nls\Locale\Alternate Sort
+s (0xE1B0FBB0)
003C - Key HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Nls\Language Groups (0xE1
+A886C8)
0040 - Key HKCU (0xE214BCE8)
0044 - Thread  (0x818FD208)
0048 - Thread  (0x81CC3CA8)
004C - Thread  (0x81851DA8)
0050 - Thread  (0x81D1CAF8)
...

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