How to find memory leak?

Craig A. Berry · *nix forums Guru Wannabe Joined: 27 May 2005 Posts: 143

At 6:30 PM -0500 2/24/06, Thomas Pfau wrote:

Thomas Pfau · *nix forums beginner Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 7

I wrote a script that was supposed to monitor certain system conditions
and email me if things weren't right. It ran for about 18 hours and
died complaining about no memory. I'm using a couple of VMS modules -
VMS::Device and VMS::Queue - and suspect one or the other (or both) is
leaking memory. I seem to recall Dan Sugalski's comments stating that
there might be some leaks.

I've done a little XS but not enough to understand all of the reference
counting issues. What facilities are in perl to debug memory allocation
issues?

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