Hi. Sorry for resurrecting such an old conversation. I don't have any Objects, so I don't think I can have any cycles. DumpSizes tells me I'm only using around 200KB RAM. Yet top reports close to 10MB, mostly in the DATA segment. Where is that memory going? Is it probably the includes? I don't see where else it can be.
On 1/3/08, Spiros Denaxas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 3, 4:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yitzle) wrote: > > Hi. > > I've got two scripts I am running and they both consume large amounts > > of memory (10MB). > > How would I go about finding where the memory is being used and > > figuring out how to reduce the memory footprint. > > > > Both scripts start off with: > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > use warnings; > > use strict; > > use WWW::Mechanize; > > use HTTP::Cookies; > > use Term::ReadKey; > > > > Would removing a "use" help? I can disable strict and warnings while > > not editing the script. And Term::ReadKey isn't really needed. > > Is it possible that Mechanize is using a really large amount of RAM? I > > set the stack_depth to 1. > > Hello, > > You can use Devel::DumpSizes [1] in order to trace the memory usage of > each variable at a given point during your script. > Also, you can check out for cyclical memory objects which consume > larger amounts of memory using Devel::Cycle [2]. > This should give you some useful insight on structures you can limit. > > Hope this helps, > > Spiros > > [1] http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Devel::DumpSizes > [2] http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Devel::Cycle -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
