From: Simon A. <sim...@st...> - 2001-05-30 01:39:14
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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. Unfortantly its is only 95000 entrys. I can read exactly the same amount of data out of our Oracle databae and use ony 20meg of RAM. 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. |