Re: [MacPerl] CPAN for MacPerl, anyone?

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 21.14 -0500 1999.01.11, Brian "L." Matthews wrote:
>Chris Nandor writes:
>|Memory is a serious problem here.  Here is a list of what I was doing, and
>|the amounts of memory CPAN chewed up.
>|Total Free
>|40106 38712  Start MacPerl
>|40106 33516  Start CPAN
>|40106 25671  cpan> i /XML/
>|40106 25770  cpan> i /XML/
>|40106 21016  cpan> install XML::Grove
>|40106 19412  cpan> i /XML/
>
>How did you come up with these numbers? If they're from About This
>Macintosh... or something, they may not indicate a memory leak.

They are from Memory Mapper, and yes, it may not be a memory leak.  I meant
to indicate it may be a memory leak; I can neither confirm nor deny.  The
fact is that when the script ended, though, I was left with a small amount
of available RAM (I forget, mayb 12MB?), so something sure seems wrong.
Also, doing the same basic thing on a Solaris box, top showed memory
allocation not going over 19MB, and in MacPerl, memory allocation grew with
each successive install.

So in short, memory usage needs to be investigated.

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