On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 04:27:36PM -0000, Eric Garland wrote: > This program will make perl 5.8.1 expand to using 350 mb on my linux > machine within 60 seconds: > > > use threads; > use threads::shared; > my @shared : shared; > @shared = (1) while (1); It's leaking 1 shared-interpreter SV per iteration. Not sure what the SV is yet. May not have time to investigate further. Dave. -- Thank God I'm an atheist.....