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I am running a Catalyst application using Perl on Cygwin on Windows 2003. After a period of time (say 24 hours), the perl.exe process runs out of memory and crashes. I have identified some small leaks (likely due to circular references in the underlying code) by using Catalyst::Controller::Leak<wbr />Tracker. However the amount of memory being leaked far exceeds these small leaks.<br />
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Any ideas, tips thoughts would be appreciated
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I am running a Catalyst application using Perl on Cygwin on Windows 2003. After a period of time (say 24 hours), the perl.exe process runs out of memory and crashes. I have identified some small leaks (likely due to circular references in the underlying code) by using Catalyst::Controller::LeakTracker. However the amount of memory being leaked far exceeds these small leaks.

Any ideas, tips thoughts would be appreciated

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