Hi List,
does anybody has deep information on how the garbage collector works in
Perl?
Is there a possibility to influence it, to free memory (in the sense of
give it back to the OS)?
Let me show:
{
my $foo = 'X' x 100000000;
getc;
}
undef $foo;
my $foo = "";
getc;
At the first prompt (via ps auxwf output):
user 12310 2.1 4.8 211000 197024 pts/2
At the second prompt:
user 12310 1.2 4.8 211000 197028 pts/2
Now, what I wanted to show: - the memory allocated for $foo is not released.
What I read on several mailing-lists is that the optimizer does not
return the memory to the OS, in the hope that the same variable will be
used again.
But what I'm missing is some kind of a 'free' statement in Perl, which
definitely returns memory (and I not know yet).
Regards,
(I'm using perl 5.10.0 on OpenSUSE 11.0)
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