Re^4: Perl tidy - uses up RAM at crazy rate

Thanks for your suggestions on format changes and code improvements - I'll work on putting them in. Regarding size I'm running the script of about 3,000 files. OK at first much slower as it continues. Any ideas? Thanks!

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Re^5: Perl tidy - uses up RAM at crazy rate by Anonymous Monk on Mar 14, 2016 at 06:36 UTC
Iterate over the list of files, then process each one in a child using system	[reply]
Re^5: Perl tidy - uses up RAM at crazy rate by graff (Chancellor) on Mar 16, 2016 at 05:04 UTC
So you've tried two versions - one with HTML::Tidy->new outside the file loop, and one with it inside the loop? Was there actually no difference in behavior? I notice that there's a "clear_messages" function. Have you tried calling that at the end of each iteration? (I assume you've read the man page for this module...)	[reply]
Re^5: Perl tidy - uses up RAM at crazy rate by Anonymous Monk on Mar 14, 2016 at 04:34 UTC
I forgot to include that I've got 8gigs of DDR3 RAM and a 1.5GhZ Intel Core i5 processor. Thanks.	[reply]