Paws memory usage

lschult2 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks, I'm starting to use Paws to access Amazon SES under mod_perl. But it's quite a memory hog. I'm still on prefork, and each httpd process is using a lot of extra memory due to Paws. There is a Paws->preload_service() call that I put in my mod_perl startup.pl file, but doing so does not change the shared memory usage for me.

# startup.pl

use Paws;
Paws->preload_service('SES');
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Has anyone had success with keeping the memory usage of PAWS down?

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Re: Paws memory usage
by Athanasius (Archbishop) on Nov 19, 2018 at 13:51 UTC

Hello lschult2,

I’ve never used the Paws module, so I’m not sure if this is relevant, but I found this open bug report: Potential memory leak in Paws::Net::MojoAsyncCaller. Might be worth investigating.

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

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Re^2: Paws memory usage

by lschult2 (Novice) on Nov 21, 2018 at 06:57 UTC

Thanks, Athanasius. So I think I have my question answered: Paws is just simply a large memory hog. So we've decided not to use it. We'll form our own requests and sign them with Net::Amazon::Signature::V4. That will be very light weight.

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