Re: [Fwd] Problem with Net::LDAP

[Clif H. <cl...@di...>]

> 
> 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
> 
> 


It would be nice to know what version of perl he is running
and on what type of systems.

Regards,

Clif