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Using 5.8.2 (AS808) on XP, and processing a little over 200_000 files, I see a growth pattern of around 22k per iteration, or maybe 10 bytes per file.

If I fork each iteration of the search, the growth appears to be increased slightly to 31k/iter of 205428 files.

Doing a crude comparision of heap dumps taken before & after an iteration, it appears as if the leakage isn't due to something not being freed, but rather to fragmentation of the heap, as larger entities are freed and their space half re-used for smaller things, thereby requiring the heap to grow the next time the larger entity needs to be allocated.

Note: The comparision was very crude...with something like 12000 individual blocks on the heap, it had to be:)

Having the script exec itself after each iteration does stop the growth, but whether that is practical will depend upon the nature and design of your program.


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In reply to Re: File::Find memory leak by BrowserUk
in thread File::Find memory leak by crabbdean

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