Re^2: Is there a way to invoke perl's garbage collector?

Thanks. I understand that the memory is available for use by perl, otherwise it would push the stack past 256MB (size of a segment or PTHREAD_STACK_MAX) which in my case is causing perl to core when creating a DOM in XML::LibXML. I'm having to limit the amount of raw xml I convert to a DOM tree to avoid this, but I'd like to reduce my in_use pages during proccessing if at all possible and that won't happen if perl does not truly free the memory. Thoughts?

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Re^3: Is there a way to invoke perl's garbage collector? by diotalevi (Canon) on Mar 07, 2006 at 22:09 UTC
Take a look at What perl operations will consume C stack space? which deals in just this subject. ⠤⠤ ⠙⠊⠕⠞⠁⠇⠑⠧⠊	[reply]
Re^4: Is there a way to invoke perl's garbage collector? by Anonymous Monk on Mar 07, 2006 at 22:51 UTC
Thanks...that was a good read. I should clarify a bit. It's in XML::LibXML that this occurs which is in libxml2, so I expect that perl is not at fault here.	[reply]