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From: tom minchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) memory leak in 2.14.1 ?
>On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 09:08:46PM -0700, Ric O'Connell wrote:
>>
>>
>> We have also seen extreme memory leaks in 2.14.1. We backed off to 2.13
and have
>> not had problems. I doubt it is Perl, unless 2.14 is using some parts of
Perl that
>> Radiator 2.13 is not. I find it hard to understand how a Perl program
has memory
>> leaks - Perl should do automatic Garbage collection.
>>
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>There's the potential of bugs in perl and mistakes in coding that'll give
>you memory leaks.
One common casue of l;eaks in perl code is circular structure or
self-referential structures. We dont think there are any of these in 2.14.1
A more common cause of leaks is in add-on perl modules: these often have C
code (or call third paryy APIs) that do mallocs, and under some
circumstances fail to free.
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