#!/use/bin/perl use strict ; use DBI; my $count = 0; sub showtime () { print "Starting loop \n"; while ( $count < 50 ) { $count++; print "Inside loop \n"; my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:Oracle:host=localhost;port=1521;sid=syno",'xyx','xyx',{PrintError => 1, RaiseError => 1, ora_envhp => 0}); my $cmd = "grep VmRSS /proc/$$/status"; print`$cmd`; sleep(1); $dbh->disconnect or warn "Disconnection failed: $DBI::errstr\n"; } print "Ending script \n"; } showtime