Memory leaks with SOAP Lite

I would be interested to know why the following script eats up an ever-
increasing amount of memory. I have tried it with perl 5.8.8 on Intel
Solaris 9, Sparc Solaris 8 and Redhat Linux boxes all with the same
result. Assigned SOAP Lite to a variable and printing that instead
yields the same result.

use strict;
use warnings;
use SOAP::Lite;

while (1)
{
print SOAP::Lite
-> uri("http://172.19.17.252:443";)
-> proxy("http://172.19.17.252:443";, timeout => 5)
-> kickWatchdog("gerard")
-> result."\n";
sleep 5;
}

Many thanks

Jon

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