Unless you need the "local" scope of the [* *] blocks, you might try the [- -] instead and see if that fixes your problem. Change it on one page and repeatedly call that page while watching the memory use.I usally create pages that look like this: [* some perl here store all output in $ouput use http_headers_out followed with and exit() if I need to redirect. *]
[+$output+]
I have never had memory problems using [* *], but that may be because I only use them for loops around html output. I generally stick with [- -] blocks.
I do have one problem. My apache processes take a lot of memory.Apache + any mod_perl tend to take a lot of memory anyway, however some of it is shared between processes.
Every request of a page it grows in size. How do I prevent, or minimize the loss of memory?One other thing to be aware of is that if you are using modules, the variables in the module need to have proper scope (such as my() in functions and methods), otherwise you will get what "appears" to be a memory leak.
Getting all the "use" lines from your code and putting them into one document where you can comment them out, refresh the page, and check memory is a dirty but quick was to isolate a module that has not declared proper variable scope.
It is possible that things have changed, but as I recall default perl installs rarely (if ever?) use versions of malloc() that allow deallocation of used memory while running (providing that your OS even supplies one). Your best tactic in general is to use memory carefully in practice and find what is causing the memory consumption and fixing it.
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