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My advice is to drop IPC::Shareable in favor of something that won't make you fuss with size issues like this. Obvious options are MLDBM::Sync and Cache::Cache (with File backend).
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Re: Re: Determining size of an IPC::Shareable object
by ehdonhon (Curate) on Feb 20, 2002 at 16:12 UTC

    Thank you. I should add that performance speed is a really big concern here. Given that additional information what module would you recommend?

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      The fastest options are IPC::MM and Cache::Mmap. However, Cache::Cache and MLDBM::Sync are fast enough for most things and easy to setup. You may be surprised to learn that file-based systems tend to be faster than shared memory systems on OSes like Linux that aggressively cache the file system.
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