Hi,
Can anyone tell me why a script would blow up my memory usage instantly after returning from a subroutine?
I have a subroutine called "InsertData(\%dafFile);"
I call this sub in my .pl and the sub is located in my .pm file.
I perform some regular expresions on the values in the %datFile I pass into the sub, and print a few things to STDOUT. Other than that there isn't a whole lot going on.
But when I step through and get to the last line in the sub and then exit out of the sub I notice my memory usage in the taskbar jumps from ~500MB to ~900+MB.
The perl.exe process instantly consumes around 400MB.
Can anyone help? Any pointers to links with info will be appreciated as well. Thanks.
-CP

In reply to memory blowing up when returning from a subroutine by chuckd

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