Re: How aggressively does Perl clean up when you exit()?

As for how you can monitor your system resources, I would suggest lsof¹ for that. Use it with the -r option while perl processes are created and killed, and you'll know whatever stays open or not. With lsof you can also monitor sockets etc.

And you'd need 'ps' or any of the Proc modules (Proc, eg Proc::ProcessTable) to monitor memory usage. As stated elsewhere, memory cleanup depends on your OS.

hth,

Jeroen

¹ Assuming you are on *nix

Update: I also come across a mac os9 utility that lists open files

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Re: Re: How aggressively does Perl clean up when you exit()? by demerphq (Chancellor) on Nov 14, 2001 at 23:17 UTC
On a NT/W2k box you can use the utilities at www.sysinternals.com for this type of stuff. Yves / DeMerphq -- Have you registered your Name Space?	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: How aggressively does Perl clean up when you exit()? by Rex(Wrecks) (Curate) on Nov 14, 2001 at 23:43 UTC
And of course the Resource Kit, I shudder to think about having to run Windows without Resource Kits. "Nothing is sure but death and taxes" I say combine the two and its death to all taxes!	[reply]