clone 598496 -1 reassign -1 perl forwarded -1 http://rt.perl.org/rt3//Ticket/Display.html?id=78266 thanks
Response from upstream copied below. The memory leak is in perl itself, and has been reported upstream; cloning to perl and setting forward appropriately. ========================================================================= I've finally been able to track down this problem. There is a memory leak in perl impacting named regexp captures (which Date::Manip uses extensively) which is causing this. I have reported the bug (perlbug #78266), but until it is resolved, I don't have an easy way to fix this. Rewriting all of the regexps in Date::Manip, while possible, is not a solution that I want to implement (I specifically switched to named captures due to the much cleaner and more secure code they allow). In the meantime, using Date::Manip 5.xx (where possible) is a workaround. A crude estimate of the leak is around 3 MB per 10000 dates parsed, so unless you're parsing hundred of thousands or millions of dates, the leak probably won't be a problem, and if you're parsing this many dates, Date::Manip may not be the right tool for you anyway. ========================================================================== -- Chris Butler <chr...@debian.org> GnuPG Key ID: 4096R/49E3ACD3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
