Hi,
I've got a loop that goes through a directory of huge xml files and after some period of time, will eventually die with an out of memory error. While my program is running, the memory usage on the stat for it continues to go up until I get an out of memory error. It runs until it runs out of memory. I restart the application, and it starts running and parses the file it just died on previously.

perl(8145) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=8421376) failed (error code=3)
perl(8145) malloc: *** error: can't allocate region
perl(8145) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
Out of memory!
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I'm guessing that its my usage of XML Dom. For each xml file in a directory, I create a new parser and a new doc. But I haven't found any code that will let me delete or free the parser or the doc the parser is parsed into. Could that be the problem? If so, how do I free it, and which should I free?

    use XML::DOM;
    my @files = <$datapath/*.*>;
    foreach my $file (@files) {
        my $parser = XML::DOM::Parser->new();
        my $doc = $parser->parsefile($file);
        ##I parse the documents
    }
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ANSWER: Looks like its $doc->dispose.