[Omaha.pm] Re: [olug] perl cpan problem

[Tim & Alethea Larson]

Whew, finally got a few free minutes to reply to this.


Jay Hannah wrote:

>
> On Sep 22, 2004, at 1:11 PM, <thelarsons3 at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> I was trying to install XML and RSS modules from CPAN.  This didn't 
>> work correctly, but the procedure suggested upgrading CPAN and 
>> installing the libnet bundle.  OK, fine.  When these didn't work 
>> either because of an "out of memory" error, I started looking closer 
>> by running top.
>
>
> What were you running when you got the error?
>
> perl -MCPAN -e ... ?


perl -MCPAN -e "install XML::Parser"
perl -MCPAN -e "install Bundle::CPAN"
perl -MCPAN -e "install Bundle::libnet"
perl -MCPAN -e "install Net::FTP"
perl -MCPAN -e "install HTTP::Date"

>> While the process is running, it slowly uses more and more RAM until 
>> all physical memory (80 MB) on the system is exhausted, then it 
>> dies.  I have 192 MB of swap that is barely touched - about 8 MB in 
>> use when Perl starts, still the same when it dies.
>
>
> While what process is running? Can you give us the exact command(s) 
> you're having problems with?


The Perl process.  The commands are above.  It's like Perl is just 
sucking all the RAM out of my box.  


Tim

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