Memory leaks, and the libwww perl modules

Simon Wilkinson (sxw@dcs.ed.ac.uk)
Fri, 9 Apr 1999 23:00:48 +0100 (BST)


Has anyone looked at the status of the modules with regard to memory
leaks recently. I've got a perl program which blossoms in size quite
nicely as it fetches URLs, and whilst some of this is due to expanding
tie'd hashes, a couple of test cases I've run with Devel::Leak suggest
that bits of LWP may be leaking.

I know that there was some traffic about this on this list a while back,
and the ChangeLogs do list some memory leak related faults as being fixed,
so I was wondering what the current status is.

(Oh, and yes, I am running the latest, non-development, version of perl).

Cheers,

Simon.