in reply to Threads in Perl: Just leaky?

I am running Perl 5.8.2

Upgrade! To at least 5.8.6, preferably 5.8.8.

There is absolutely no point in trying to work around all the bugs that existed with threading in 5.8.2.

Once you've upgraded, if your problem still exists you will need to post more information. Eg. What OS.

You'll also need to post real (preferably cut-down), runnable code, rather than pseudo-code. Barring something very obvious, which probably won't show up in pseudo-code anyway, it's pretty much impossible to track down memory leaks without being able to run the code.

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