All:
I have a Perl program (v5.8.0 on Mandrake Linux 9.0) that spawns a new
thread each time a user logs in and then detaches the thread when the
login tasks are completed. For example:
my $peer_thr = threads->create(\&send_comm_messages, $username)->detach;
I did a memory test on the program and found that each time a user logs
in, the memory resources used by the thread (~3MB) are not released when
the thread detaches. There are no calculations performed in the thread
and no values are returned.
I would not expect that this should be the case and was curious if others
have had similar experiences.
Thank you for your thoughts.
Steve
