> On 3 Aug 2017, at 17:55, Graham Barr <gb...@pobox.com> wrote: > > >> On Aug 3, 2017, at 10:59 , Chris Ridd <chrisr...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> I had a requirement to extract 30+ million entries from an ldap server, and >> naively thought that using callbacks would be useful. >> >> While they are useful in getting me each result quickly, I didn't realise >> that Search still captures each result in self. So after reading several >> million entries Linux's oom killer kindly killed a) the ldap server and then >> b) my script to try and get back some memory! >> >> I ended up patching Search.pm to avoid capturing each result when using >> callbacks. Is there a better way to do this? > > Did you call $mesg->pop_entry; in you callback. See > http://search.cpan.org/~marschap/perl-ldap-0.65/lib/Net/LDAP/FAQ.pod#USING_THE_CALLBACK_SUBROUTINE_APPROACH > for an example
Aha, that's exactly what I was missing. Thanks Graham! Chris
