Re^3: Lots of memory usage with fork&copy

Sorry. That's the problem with coming to the party late, you tend to miss what has gone before. In this case, the reference to 5.8.8/AS817. I was using AS811/5.8.6 which I have stuck with in preference to 5.8.8 as I have encountered several anomolies with the latter.

I just repeated my tests using AS817 and replicated your results exactly. I also tried it with 5.9.5 (current - 10 days), and found that it produces similar results to 5.8.8, so it looks like bug introduced since 5.8.6 is responsible. Worth raising a perl-bug report I think.

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