in reply to Gregorian Garbage Collection...

Anyone got any idea how I can force the GC to clean up my threads properly?
Send in patches!

I am only half kidding. Or maybe not at all. While there might be all kinds of problems with your code (or not, but there's nothing to inspect), Perl threads have all kinds of problems. Memory leaks belong to those. I do suggest you upgrade from 5.8.5 to 5.8.7. While it seems trivial, it's just two maintenance releases from 5.8.5 to 5.8.7, many of the changes between 5.8.5 and 5.8.7 have to do with threads.

And to answer your question, you cannot tickle the garbage collector from within Perl - other than reducing the reference count of your values to 0.

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Re^2: Gregorian Garbage Collection...
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 12, 2005 at 13:08 UTC
    Perl threads have all kinds of problems. Memory leaks belong to those... many of the changes between 5.8.5 and 5.8.7 have to do with threads

    Do you have some pointers?

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      I guess all the changes are in the Changes files coming with Perl. However, I based my remarks on Allison Randall's "State of the Carrot".
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