Possible memory leak using HTML::Parse

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Ian Beckwith writes:
 > Hi.
 > 
 > I think I have found a problem with the HTML::Parse module
 > I have narrowed it down to the following script:
 > 
 > #!/usr/bin/perl -w
 > 
 > use HTML::Parse;
 > {local $/=undef; $page=<>;}
.......[snip]
 > the process size (as reported by ps) grew to 23Mb before I killed it.
 > 
 > If I understand correctly, $parser should be freed each time through
 > the for loop, but evidently it isn't.


.. I have had similar suspicions regarding the Net::FTP module, though
I have not yet narrowed it down that far.  I have seen similar
behavior though, with program process size growing significatnly when
using a loop.

...AlexJB



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