[MacPerl] Thx Re Net::SMTP & memory

[guinn@mail.utexas.edu (Tim Guinn)]

Hi,

Thanks to Paul Schinder & Matthias for pointing out my erroneous
observation about Net::SMTP and its memory demands in MacPerl.

I bumped MacPerl's partition up to 6MB on the 68k machine and ran the
script. Perfect. No problems. So then I did as Paul suggested and
stepped through the script, while running Memory Mapper. Sure 'nuff,
"use Net::SMTP" grabbed a huge chunk of the partition, immediately. In
fact, it grabbed more than the entire, original default partition.
'Guess that explains that knees-bent, crashing behavior <g>.

(Now if I can just remember this, the next upgrade...)

Matthias said:

>Hmm... maybe I should simply put up a dialog and quit on Out of Memory,
>given that I don't quite manange to handle recovery correctly?

Yes, maybe something like:

    "Out of Memory! Try increasing MacPerl's memory partition"
    "Oha LŠtz!" ;^)

Thanks again, y'all.

tpg

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