Re: [perl #24061] shared array memory leak in 5.8.1

Elizabeth Mattijsen (via RT) wrote:
> At 16:27 +0000 9/28/03, Eric Garland (via RT) wrote:
>
> > use threads;
> > use threads::shared;
> > my @shared : shared;
> > @shared = (1) while (1);
> Upon further investigation, it appears that this is _not_ related to 
> the push / pop problem that existed in 5.8.0.  The following code 
> does _not_ eat memory:
> use threads;
> use threads::shared;
> my @shared : shared;
> while (1) {
>      push( @shared,1 );
>      pop( @shared );
> }
>
> which means that queues (which used to eat memory like hell) are safe 
> to use.  Which is what you would use shared arrays for the most time 
> anyway.  Right?
Aah!  Excellent!  I was assuming that the push/pop leak and this one were
the same thing but I tried the push/pop test and a queue enqueue/dequeue test
on both cygwin and linux and none of them leaked.  It sounds like as long as I
stay away from explicitly setting a shared array my program won't leak in 5.8.1.
I should be able to work around that since most of what I want to do is
enqueue/dequeue type stuff.

Thanks!