On Jun 27, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Jean-Max Reymond wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a stored procedure written in perl and I doubt that perl's
> garbage collector is working :-(
> after a lot of work, postmaster has a size of 1100 Mb and I think
> that the keyword "undef" has no effects.
> Before tuning my procedure, does it exist a known issue, a
> workaround ?
just because your application frees the memory doesn't mean that the
OS takes it back. in other words, don't confuse memory usage with
memory leakage.
Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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