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Are there different 'tools' I could use to dig deeper?

Have you looked at Test::LeakTrace? Dependencies are listed as “Perl 5.8.1 or later, and a C compiler.” so 5.8.8 should be fine. See the recent thread Leaking 0-length ARRAYs!?.

HTH,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum

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Re^2: Memory management with long running scripts
by jamesrleu (Novice) on Aug 08, 2012 at 13:19 UTC

    Thank you Athanasius. By using Test::LeakTrace I was able to find some old modules that were leaking:

    • Log::Log4Perl
    • DBI
    • Log::Dispatch
    • Log::Dispatch::FileRotate

    So I've made some progress. The scripts used to need to be restart ~10 times per day, now they are down to <5.

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      I kinda doubt those modules are actually leaking all that much
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