If it helps, I'm running perl 5.8.5 for RHEL4 and POE 0.32. I'm using POE to tail multiple logfiles using POE::Wheel::FollowTail to pull out IP addresses that are attempting to use dictionary attacks to harvest email addresses on our network in one session. I store the originating connection's IP, along with a timestamp, and other information in the session's heap, then loop through every 5 minutes to expire information older than 1 minute (we do alot of mail). In a child session, I'm reporting the offending IPs.
Although I'm deleting the expired members of the heap, RAM is still being consumed and not released. I've read that a Session won't be cleaned up until all references to it have been removed. However, I'm not sure this is ever happening because I'm saving a copy of the Wheels in the Session's heap. Could this be the cause of my problem, or am I confused? Dave
