hakkr has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi , can anyone elucidate on this error I am seeing in apache logs, it looks to me like the garbage colletor is attempting to free an unreferenced variable but failing somehow and therefore leaking memory?
Scalars leaked: 1 10055 Apache::DBI new connect to 'dbi I am using string sh +own here' Attempt to free unreferenced scalar.