[tpop3d-discuss] Apparent memory leak in 1.4.1pre4 under Solaris 8

Paul Makepeace Paul.Makepeace at realprogrammers.com
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:19:10 -0800


On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:00:15PM +0000, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> However, you may find that tpop3d/auth-perl leaks memory
> even with this installed. This is a consequence of perl's
> crummy garbage collection,

Perl doesn't have a GC, but AFAIK so long as you're not creating
circular references or leaving unused objects/data structures lying
around there shouldn't be egregious memory usage issues.

Paul