EDIT: Win32::Exe seems to leak terribly. But even more important is that I was using it to get the version info of many Windows EXE files, which is not really what Win32::Exe is for. If you want to do such a thing, use Win32::File::VersionInfo instead as it's waaay faster and doesn't have the leak problem.

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Everytime it runs, the count goes up by quite a lot. Memory usage goes up drastically. It ends up using 622MB when it finishes the ten loops.

When I remove the Win32::Exe parts, it doesn't have this problem at all. It seems using undef($exe) doesn't do the trick.

Does anyone have any ideas on what to do about this? This is running in a script (that does many things, including this) that stays running as a Windows service as long as the box is running. This kind of memory usage is unacceptable.

If anyone knows a good replacement for Win32::Exe that does the same thing, I'm highly interested.

EDIT: I found Win32::File::VersionInfo and it seems to do the trick... and faster.

Here's my code:

use Win32::Process;
use Win32::Process::Info;
use Win32::Exe;
use Devel::Leak;

sub cmd_processes
{
  my $pi = Win32::Process::Info->new(undef, 'NT');

  my $response = {
    action => 'processes',
  };

  for($pi->ListPids)
  {
    my ($info) = $pi->GetProcInfo($_);
    next unless ($info && defined($info->{ProcessId}));

    if ($info->{ExecutablePath})
    {
      my $sigalrm = $SIG{ALRM};
      eval
      {
        $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "cmd_processes item exe timeout\n"; };
        alarm(1);
        my $exe = Win32::Exe->new($info->{ExecutablePath});
        alarm(0);
        foreach my $var (qw/CompanyName FileDescription FileVersion In
+ternalName LegalCopyright LegalTrademarks OriginalFilename ProductNam
+e ProductVersion/)
        {
          $info->{$var} = $exe->version_info->get($var);
        }
        undef($exe);
      };
      $SIG{ALRM} = $sigalrm;
    }

    push(@{$response->{process}}, $info);
    undef($info);
  }

  undef($response);
  undef($input);
}

for (1..10)
{
  my $handle;
  my $count = Devel::Leak::NoteSV($handle);
  print "\nPRE: $count\n";
  cmd_processes();
  $count = Devel::Leak::NoteSV($handle);
  print "POST: $count\n";
}
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