> > I seem to vaguely recall that even if perl free()'s memory that doesn't > necessarily mean that the memory is returned to the OS for the runtime of > the program I believe that's correct. > What OS are you on? I'm running perl 5.8.6 on OS X 10.4.11 intel. > perl 5.10 or 5.8.8 on OS X 10.5.4 Intel. Dave