Memory leak with LWP::UserAgent on linux

tony@default.stanford.edu
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 22:25:22 -0800 (PST) 

A while back I posted the following code snippet that was leaking on my
machine to comp.lang.perl.modules and go nothing back. I reposted it tonight
and finally got onto this mailing list so I'm asking here more directly.
Please help if you can.
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use HTTP::Response;
use LWP::UserAgent;

  my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
  my $path = "my.favorite.site";
  my $request = new HTTP::Request('GET', $path);
  my $response;

  for (my $i=0; $i < 450; $i++) {
     $response = $ua->request($request);
     sleep(15);
   }
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I got one response which said this didn't leak on another person's system.
I checked another system I have access to and it doesn't leak there either.
Here's some system details:
Leaks                                 Doesn't Leak
Linux                                 FreeBSD
Kernel 2.0.34 on an i586              FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE
5.005_04 built for i586-linux         5.004_04 built for i386-freebsd
libwww-perl 5.41                      libwww-perl 5.20

I'm hoping someone can help me fix this leak. It grows pretty fast, it
seems as though it's not freeing up memory equal to the size of the HTML
returned by the server. perl5.005_02 also leaks on the linux machine. I
saw mentions of leaks in the archives but never any responses with fixes.
I just fired off a subscription request to the LWP mailing list.

Thanks,

Jennifer