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From: usenet@carssdf.UUCP (John Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: excessive perl memory usage
Summary: excess memory usage - try 4.0
Message-ID: <303@carssdf.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 91 23:55:53 GMT
References: <1991May2.212216.24563@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Organization: C.A.R.S.,Middlesex,NJ
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In article <1991May2.212216.24563@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, lijewski@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Mike Lijewski) writes:
> 
>... I've seen the perl process grow to roughly 10Mbytes on our
> IBM 3090 running AIX/370.  The version of perl is 3.44.  .....
> -- 
> Mike Lijewski  (H)607/272-0238 (W)607/254-8686
> Cornell National Supercomputer Facility

You owe it to yourself to try the version 4.0 patch 3.  There were several
fixes that reduced memory leaks getting to 4.0 and then one more fix in
the patch to level 3.  All my programs used to do the same thing and
are all stable now.

John Watson    self-employed   in New Jersey