From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 Description of problem: Would like a new perl rpm that addresses the shared.xs memory leak when using threads. I believe it was fixed atleast by version 5.8.2 Don't want to have to compile my own version of perl for the Enterprise version. -thanks Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): perl-5.8.0-88.4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: NA Additional info:
Internal RFE bug #154449 entered; will be considered for future releases.
Sorry for the delay in processing this bug . By "shared.xs memory leak" are you referring to this perl bug : #24061: shared array memory leak in 5.8.1 ( http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=24061 ) ? If so, the patch which fixes it ( #21530 ) has now been applied to the next RHEL-3 perl-5.8.0-90.2 version. This bug should probably have been treated as a normal bug report rather than an enhancement request - it is a bug that perl-5.8.0's threads implementation leaks memory, and a request to fix this is not an enhancement request.
Yes, this looks like our problem. -thanks
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-881.html