Re^3: Help Diagnosing Memory Leak

Hm. I cut & pasted your code verbatim, generated a 10 x 10MB datasets and ran it.

The result on my system is successful completion using 3.2MB.

So, I guess we need to trade OSs and version:

C:\test\890799>perl -MList::Util -E" say, for $^O, $], $List::Util::VE
+RSION"
MSWin32
5.010001
1.23
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My guess is that you are using a 5.8.x version of Perl and a very old version of List::Util that had leaks associated with closures until quite late into the 5.8x line?

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Re^4: Help Diagnosing Memory Leak by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Mar 02, 2011 at 17:41 UTC
BrowserUk, I provided OS and version of perl in the root thread but my List::Util is 1.13 so roughly September of 2003. I am glad the problem doesn't appear to be my code nor with the calling code as postulated. Thanks. Cheers - L~R	[reply]