memory leak in syncdb

> 
> Syncdb -- isn't that a Perl script?  What version of Perl are you running?
> Any Perl5 version before 5.004_04 contains memory leaks of some sort, and
> even 5.004_04 probably still contains some.  Perl 4.036 seemed not too
> bad, but that's an ancient version now, so I wouldn't bet on it.
> 

Yes, I experienced various sort of memory leaks in earlier versions
of perl 5, but currently I'm running 004_04/solaris
and most of the memory problems with other programs vanished.

still syncdb is 0.5GB in size which seems much for an innocent 
script like it is. But probably you're right blaming in on perl.

I'm curious if anyone else experienced this with syncdb and found
any solution to it ?

Thanks,

--w