Instead of delete()ing it, try lexically scoping your hashes using my(). You may find that letting the data structures go out of scope releases some memory to be reused by perl that you were missing.
-----Original Message----- From: Angerstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 12:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to find memory leaks? Hi, I have a deamon like programm, which runs tasks at give timestamps. This is in a while (1) {} if startjobx == time loop. Now i have the problem that one or more of my datastructures eats more and more memory. I "delete" every value after using it from my hashes or array from arrays, but it still not getting better. any idea? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]