in reply to Memory is not released back to operating system
To be absolutely sure your memory gets released back when you want, fork the code off. See Re: undefining hashes to free memory for more info on non-forked problems with memory.
Otherwise, the Perl interpreter will greedily hang on to the memory, figuring if you used it once, you probably will want to use it again.
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Re^2: Memory is not released back to operating system
by bloonix (Monk) on Mar 03, 2012 at 00:22 UTC | |
by shawnhcorey (Friar) on Mar 03, 2012 at 16:49 UTC |
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