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From: Michael Peppler <mpeppler at MBAY dot NET>
Subject: Re: Memory leak in Sybperl 2.0.9 on NT?
Date: Feb 12 1998 11:05PM
Jamie Thingelstad wrote:
>
> Michael Peppler stated:
> #
> # I am aware of the problem - in testing here after 11000 connections
> # the process space has increased by about 3meg ().
> #
> # However I have not been able to find out *where* the leak occurs.
> #
> # But I'll try to find some time to find out more.
> #
> # Does anyone on the list have purify (or a similar product) that
> # they could use on sybperl?
> #
>
> Hello Michael,
>
> I attempted to run it through Purify but after Purify sat there for 10
> minutes doing nothing but exercising the CPU I gave up. This leak can
> be exercised with the following test program:
>
> use Sybase::DBlib;
>
> $i = 0;
>
> while (1) {
> printf "Attempt %d.\n", $i++;
> my $dbh = new Sybase::DBlib "xxxxxxxx", "xxxxxxxx", "xxxxxxxx";
> undef($dbh);
> }
>
> If you have a suggestion on how I might make purify work, let me know.
Unfortunately I've never used purify - I just know it exists and
what it does :-)
Yes the above script (using either DBlib or CTlib will leak pretty
badly.
Michael
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Michael Peppler -||- Data Migrations Inc.
mpeppler@datamig.com -||- http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler
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