On June 29, 1999 at 01:40, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
> >Note, my system configuration is different from yours. I am running
> >Perl 5.005_03 on RH 5.2 w/2.2.9 kernel. There is a possibility that
> >Perl 5.004 has some memory leaks exposed by MHonArc v2.4.0.
>
> The perl version that is recommended in RedHat 5.2's errata notes is:
>
> # rpm -q perl MHonArc
> perl-5.004m7-1
RH 5.2 is somewhat old. I've made it a habit of just building from
source obtained from language.perl.com.
> Running under this perl, all memory is consumed every time I try
> asking MHonArc 2.4.0 to add to the big database. So, I tried upgrading
> perl. Scrounging the net for a slightly newer version of perl, I found
> this one in ftp://contrib.redhat.com:
>
> # rpm -q perl
> perl-5.005_02-1
>
> # perl -v
>
> This is perl, version 5.005_02 built for i386-linux-thread
------------------------------------------------------^^^^^^
Threading is currently very experimental in Perl.
> MHonArc 2.4.0 worked fine under this perl and contained itself to
> about 143 meg. (More or less, I get the number from watching top
> during the run.) Switching back to the old version of perl caused the
> problem to reappear. I'm not going to draw any broad sweeping
> conclusions from this experiment, but it's safe to say I will be
> sticking with the newer version of perl.
Hey, if it works, go with it.
--ewh
