Re: mod_perl DSO leaking on restart?

[Doug MacEachern]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Paul G. Weiss wrote:

>     alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
                                ^
ok, here's why i kept asking for perl -V.  i don't see Perl's malloc.c
ever release its memory pool.  when usemymalloc=y, free() only puts memory
back into Perl's pool for use by other malloc()'s.  i don't see a function
to destroy this pool when perl cleans itself up.  willing to bet if you
rebuild Perl with: Configure -des -Uusemymalloc ...
and then rebuild mod_perl, the leaks will go away.