I have a Perl program (v5.8.0 on Mandrake Linux 9.0) that spawns a new thread each time a user logs in and then detaches the thread when the login tasks are completed. For example:
my $peer_thr = threads->create(\&send_comm_messages, $username)->detach;
I did a memory test on the program and found that each time a user logs in, the memory resources used by the thread (~3MB) are not released when the thread detaches. There are no calculations performed in the thread and no values are returned.
I would not expect that this should be the case and was curious if others have had similar experiences.
Thank you for your thoughts.
Could you please verify if this problem still exists with Perl 5.8.4-RC1, currently available from CPAN?
Liz
