From: Simon A. <sim...@st...> - 2001-05-30 01:27:45
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> > 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. > > It would be nice to know what version of perl he is running > and on what type of systems. Output from perl -v This is perl, version 5.003 with EMBED built under solaris at Jun 10 1998 02:26:14 + suidperl security patch The perl is the version that comes with Oracle 9i. delphi:~$ uname -a SunOS delphi.ihug.co.nz 5.6 Generic_105181-20 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2 Simon Allard (Senior Tool Monkey) IHUG Ph (09) 358-5067 Email: sim...@st... The real fighting men and women of the 21st century will continue to be techo's backed up by the grunts with bad haircuts and rifles. |