[Dxspider-support] Memory Leak in Windows

[Dirk Koopman]

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 01:39 -0700, Lee Sawkins wrote:
> Is there a command to find out from Perl which version I am running?
> Don't know what "top" or "ps axl" mean.  If you are asking about how to
> find memory usage, you bring up the task manager and go to "processes".

perl -v


> 
> I know Windows winsocks at one time had a memory leak.  Every time you
> loaded and unloaded one you lost a tiny bit of memory.  Over time this
> added up.  The solution was to not unload them but just to close them. 
> This Windows bug was supposed to have been fixed, but maybe Perl still
> has this problem.

could be, if it is the earlier activestate 5.6.1 version.

Dirk