Maybe...

Programs using signals are tricky in perl (well, actually in any language), and I have been looking at Event.pm source code, and it is anything but simple, so I would not discard some bug there.

Also because you are (ab)using the module in some unusual way, sending a HUP signal from the HUP signal handler all the time without letting it rest for a while...

Yes I know, that sounds a bit silly, programs don't need to rest, but I have a reason to say that: the way perl vars are freed, marking them as mortals (see perlxs, perlguts and perlapi man pages for what's a mortal explanations).

Maybe Event.pm only closes the callback calling scope when the event queue is empty, and not after every callback invocation...

So, summarizing: send a bug report to the module author!!!

In reply to Re: Event.pm memory leek ? by salva
in thread Event.pm memory leek ? by asdfgroup

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