LPM: Not so quiet on the western front...

[Janine]

Our standard Perl distribution (present on all servers) is 5.005_03.
Yesterday the sysadmin installed 5.6 on a test box for us.  The program
is running now, and its memory usage is under control.  Under 5.005 it
creeps up to 600mb and over, but it's holding steady at 150mb under 5.6.

That's not the kind of resolution that makes you smarter, but it gets
the work done.

*sigh*


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lexington-pm-list at pm.org
> [mailto:owner-lexington-pm-list at pm.org]On Behalf Of Matt Cashner
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 4:28 PM
> To: lexington-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
> Subject: RE: LPM: Not so quiet on the western front...
>
>
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Janine wrote:
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> > undef @bigarray is not freeing up memory as I expect.  Watching the
> > program's memory usage with top, it slowly creeps up and up and up -
> > even after @bigarray is undef'd.
> >
> > Right now I'm looking at the "stuff".  Something in there must be
> > holding on to elements in @bigarray.
>
> ouch. i've been there. you might try putting the routine in a block of
> its own. that should add extra scoping and yet another place for that
> array to get cleared.
>
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> Matt Cashner
> Web Applications Developer
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