Re: [Fwd] Problem with Net::LDAP

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

Graham Barr <gb...@po...> wrote:
> It is taking so much memory because it is reading all the results into
> memory before returning for you to process them.
> 
> I suspect you don't really need all of the entries, so try modifying your
> filter to result the resutl set that is being sent.
> 
> If this is not possible, try using the callback option. This allows you
> to process each entry as it arrives from the server.
> 
> Graham.

This is true, however 95000 * 200 bytes (rough size of the example entry)
only comes to about 18 megabytes, and Simon said his perl process was using
250 megabytes :-(

That's a lot of overhead, unless Simon missed a zero out of his entry count
- 950000 entries would work out to use about the observed quantity of
memory. Well, the same order of magnitude anyway.

Cheers,

Chris