LPM: Not so quiet on the western front...

[Matt Cashner]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Janine wrote:

> I need help from people with Big Brains.  Can anyone offer suggestions
> for tracking down memory leaks in perl code?  I've never needed to do
> this before, so I don't even know where to start.

you want to look at Devel::Leak.

also check for self-referential data structures.

$data{badmonkey} = \%data;

i doubt it will be that obvious :)


also, is this perchance modperl with Apache::DBI?

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