I'm finding that if I issue a Sleep on each iteration, the memory is reclaimed properly. Should have tried that earlier, I guess.

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From: Ralph Mitchell <rmitchell_at_eds.com>
Reply-To: curl-users_at_lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 09:53:27 -0600

>I'm not familiar with VB at all, but if you're running command-line curl
>via a shell exec, I doubt if it's curl leaking the memory. Every time
>the command line curl exits, the system *ought* to reclaim the resources
>used. If it doesn't, that's not curl's fault.
>
>Of course, I could be wrong - I just got off work and have had a couple
>of beers...
>
>Ralph Mitchell
>
>
>David Halsted wrote:
>
>>Hello. I'm calling cURL in a multi-thousand iteration loop in VB6 with a Shell call. cURL is being called to write out a temp file, and the file is being read by an XML parser. The program's really fast, but eats page file space at a pretty good clip (does not do so using other methods of doing an HTTP POST).
>>
>>Do I need to do something to make cURL release the resources it seems to be consuming on each iteration? Or am I just making some elementary mistake?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Dave Halsted
>>
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