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At 15:33 -0400 10/22/03, Jack Steadman wrote: > > I don't know how performance bound you are, but both programs work ok >> when you used forks.pm (using an unchanged program, by specifying >> "-Mforks -Mforks::shared" on the command line). So this might be a >> temporary alternative that would allow you to keep your source >> unchanged and not have to worry about having to restart because it is > > eating memory. >performance is important but i'm running on some pretty big boxes. i'm >about to launch a very large threaded application in a week and half or so, >and am hesitant to make a change that large no matter how compatible they >are. also, forks::shared doesn't support the :shared attribute, right? >that's a lot of (minor) code changes. No, forks.pm _does_ support the shared attribute since September 27 (version 0.06 then, at 0.08 now). So you wouldn't need to change any code at all to try it... At least it shouldn't ;-) >i was banking on the claim that 5.8.1 would solve the memory leaks with >shared vars. a bit idealistic i'm sure, but at least the memory problem is >somewhat manageable now. i should be able to run for about a day before >restarting, though the ideal case would obviously be to never be *forced* to >restart. Well, maybe someone can figure out what is going on here and maybe we'll get a fix for 5.8.2? LizThread Previous | Thread Next