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Re^2: I ran out of memory

by ido50 (Scribe)
on Aug 26, 2004 at 17:03 UTC ( [id://386083]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: I ran out of memory
in thread I ran out of memory

Okay so first of all, the website is stored on a server that I don't own, so I can't run such commands.
The data the program uses is stored in a DBM database, and it's only the beginning so it's quite small really.

I've used the following memory test script I got from a certain website. It tries to use about 8MB of memory. It fails to do so:

#!/usr/bin/perl $| = 1; print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "Memory/Resource Test<BR>\n"; print "Number is the amount of memory used<BR>\n"; print "If you don't see 'Completed Test!' at the bottom, the test fail +ed<P><HR>\n"; for ($i = 10000; $i <= 8000000; $i += 100000) { $x = " " x $i; print "-"; print "| $i ; Time (secs): ", (time - $^T), "<BR>\n" if $i % 1 +000000 == 0; } print "Completed Test!\n"; exit(0);
So I guess my host limits the ammount of memory my CGI programs can use...

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Re^3: I ran out of memory
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Aug 26, 2004 at 17:09 UTC
    You can probably request a higher limit for an additional fee. Talk to your hosting provider for more info.

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    I shouldn't have to say this, but any code, unless otherwise stated, is untested

      Yeah I guess, but wouldn't you say it's somewhat a problem with my code. Maybe I should try to reduce the amount of operations the program does. For example, the program generates HTML pages 'on-the-fly', which basically means slurping the data from the database, wrapping it up in nice HTML code and printing it. Maybe have the program create an html file and just let users view the file directly instead of making them access the program itself?


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        Or, you could, if possible, generate the page as you are reading the data, and not have to store more than a little bit of the data in memory at a time.

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