From: Clif H. <ch...@po...> - 2001-05-30 02:42:49
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Simon Allard wrote: > > > > 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. Simon, The lowest version of perl that we support is version 5.004. Very soon we will only support 5.005_03 and above. IMO your problem is in your version of perl. Regards, Clif Harden ch...@po... |