PROBLEM SOLVED I guess I was too quick asking the monks on this one. It turns out the problem was with the DBD::ODBC module. I had an older version, once I updated to the current version in CPAN the problem went away.

I have several Perl programs that I maintain at work that have been running fine for years on various systems (WinXP, Win 2003, Linux). Recently we have deployed them for a new client on a 64 bit Windows 2008 Server running SQL Server 2008. The code ran fine for a bit then it stopped. Looking into it I saw that I was getting out-of-memory errors. Attempting to track down the leak I came up with the following sample program that withing a min or two claims about 40megs of memory and just keeps growing. Any ideas?

    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use DBI qw(:sql_types);
    
    my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:ODBC:sample_db", "user", "pass");
    my $query = $dbh->prepare("SELECT TOP 1 ID FROM TABLE");
    
    while (1)
    {
        $query->execute();
        while (my $row = $query->fetchrow_hashref() ){
            print  $row->{EV_EQ_ID} . "\n";
        }
        $query->finish();
    }
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I'm running strawberry perl 5.12.2 but have been able to reproduce this on this box with the 5.10 build as well.

    C:>perl -V
    Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 12 subversion 2) configura
+tion:
    
      Platform:
        osname=MSWin32, osvers=5.1, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
        uname='Win32 strawberryperl 5.12.2.0 #1 Fri Nov  5 05:17:27 20
+10 i386'
        config_args='undef'
        hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
        useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
        useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks
+=undef
        use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
        usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
      Compiler:
        cc='gcc', ccflags =' -s -O2 -DWIN32 -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT  -DUSE_S
+ITECUSTOMIZE -
    DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -fno-strict-aliasing -m
+ms-bitfields -
    DPERL_MSVC`enter code here`RT_READFIX',
        optimize='-s -O2',
        cppflags='-DWIN32'
        ccversion='', gccversion='4.4.3', gccosandvers=''
        intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
        d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsiz
+e=12
        ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='lon
+g long', lseek
    size=8
        alignbytes=8, prototype=define
      Linker and Libraries:
        ld='g++', ldflags ='-s -L"C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE" -L"C:\s
+trawberry\c\li
    b"'
        libpth=C:\strawberry\c\lib C:\strawberry\c\i686-w64-mingw32\li
+b
        libs=-lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdl
+g32 -ladvapi32
     -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr -lw
+inmm -lversion
     -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32
        perllibs=-lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lc
+omdlg32 -ladva
    pi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr
+ -lwinmm -lver
    sion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32
        libc=, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl512.a
        gnulibc_version=''
      Dynamic Linking:
        dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
        cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-mdll -s -L"C:\strawberry\perl\lib\
+CORE" -L"C:\st
    rawberry\c\lib"'
    
    
    Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
      Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
                            PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
                            PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PL_OP_SLAB_ALLOC USE_ITHR
+EADS
                            USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF
                            USE_SITECUSTOMIZE
      Built under MSWin32
      Compiled at Nov  5 2010 08:39:08
      @INC:
        C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib
        C:/strawberry/perl/vendor/lib
        C:/strawberry/perl/lib
        .
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