Re: Perl 5.10.0 Memory Usage

2010-08-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 07:13:17AM -0400, Bill Birkett wrote: I recently upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard. Now, some scripts that ran nicely on Perl 5.8.9 are consuming all available RAM on Perl 5.10.0, and bringing the system to its knees. The scripts I'm referring to create a

Re: Perl 5.10.0 Memory Usage

2010-08-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 06:05:46PM -0400, Bill Birkett wrote: I found some circular references, and after removing them, garbage collection worked as expected. Strange that Perl 5.8.9 destroyed the objects, but Perl 5.10.0 didn't. Do you know if 5.10.1 does? Is there an easy way to