I think it is because the queue gets eaten too quickly..look at this:
#!/perl/bin/perl

use strict;
use threads;
use Thread::Queue;
my @threads;
my $thread;

my $q = Thread::Queue->new();
$q->enqueue(1..100);
print "Items in the queue: ",$q->pending,"\n";
for (1..5) {
    push @threads, threads->new(\&ttest);
    print "spawned thread:";
}
foreach $thread (@threads){
    $thread->join;
}

sub ttest {
    while (my $cnt =  $q->pending) {
        my $item = $q->dequeue;
        print "$cnt\n";
    last if $cnt == 0 ;
    }
}

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cheers :0) JamesNC

In reply to Re: Thread::Queue and Memory by JamesNC
in thread Thread::Queue and Memory by petesmiley

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