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Memory Leak when slurping files in a loop
Perl frees memory for its own reuse... but does NOT return memory to the OS (until execution ends).
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Re^2: Memory Leak when slurping files in a loop
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Anonymous Monk
on Dec 07, 2010 at 04:46 UTC
Sometimes it does return memory to the OS
How to return unused memory to OS?
demonstrate that perl can give back memory to the OS
Long running tasks, perl and garbage collection
undefining hashes to free memory
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