[Bioperl-l] malloc errors while using Bio::SeqIO?

[Dave Messina]

>
>  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