Finding a Perl memory leak

Question

SOLVED see Edit 2

Hello,

I\'ve been writing a Perl program to handle automatic upgrading of local (proprietary) programs (for the company I

Answer 1

How do you know that it's a memory leak? I can think of many other reasons why the OS would kill a program.

The first question I would ask is "Does this program always work correctly from the command line?". If the answer is "No" then I'd fix these issues first.

On the other hand if the answer is "Yes", I would investigate all the differences between having the program executed under cron and from the command line to find out why it is misbehaving.