# New Ticket Created by Carlin Bingham # Please include the string: [perl #70183] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=70183 >
This did not occur in 657d55cce1f1ded33fd1f731344bd31b33099cb8 but is present in 6b04b37bb3c06bfb5eb306844b3efbbd54a357cc onwards (I wasn't unable to get the revisions in between to run). For example: loop { my $x = 1; } The idle REPL from 657d55cce allocated 48.1 MiB (according to System Monitor). After running that loop for 10 minutes it sat at a constant 49.6 MiB. Before killing the process, 'free -m' reported: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3900 2620 1279 0 341 1282 After killing, it reported: Mem: 3900 2570 1330 0 341 1282 The latest Rakudo (74f561eb77cfe4d7384c1a82ab484d7b63ba8073) allocated 50.8MiB on opening on the REPL. After 5 minutes of running that loop it had allocated 1GiB. Before stopping it: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3900 3650 249 0 341 1282 After: Mem: 3900 2567 1332 0 341 1282 -- Carlin