SUMMARY: first technical PPPM meeting

[Keary Suska]

on 6/6/02 1:28 AM, drj826 at acm.org purportedly said:

> Once again (my problem in a nutshell) I'm looking for is a way to
> understand what's in the perl memory heap because on very large
> publishing projects perl tries to use the memory on all computers in a
> 50 mile radius :-)

perlguts.pod (and maybe the XS docs) will tell you about Perl internals, and
perhaps with a memory mapper you could see what is going on.

If you are keeping everything in memory, I imagine that could get pretty
big, especially since XML::Parser and the XSLT modules I have heard of keep
a lot of redundant and meta- data. Other issues could be circular
references, which prevent proper garbage collection.

If you are amenable to sending your source code, I wouldn't mind taking a
look at it ;-)

Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"