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in thread Garbage Collection on Hash delete

Did that happen with perl5.6 or perl5.6.1?
Some months ago I had the same problems with perl5.6 and 5.61 and decided to downgrade to perl5.005_03 (was the same behaviour under Solaris, Linux and Win2k (=AS 522)) and got RAM usage decreased from 800 MB to 500 MB, and Runtime from about 1:20 to 0:30. The data structure was a Hash of Hashes of Arrays (a simplified LDAP structure).

But I'd like to run some tests about the behaviour of perl5.8...

Best regards,
perl -e "s>>*F>e=>y)\*martinF)stronat)=>print,print v8.8.8.32.11.32"

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Re: Re: Re: Garbage Collection on Hash delete
by rdfield (Priest) on Jan 22, 2003 at 16:44 UTC
    My results were when using AS623 (5.6.0) on a 2GHz P4 with 512MB RAM. The data structure was a HoHoHoHoHoHoA (a total of approx 2.4M elements over ~ 600000 arrays), but sharing the RAM with a Oracle database (about 150MB resident in memory). Watching the datastructure destruct I saw 140000+ page faults. I'm looking to move the software to a Linux box, Perl 5.8 and put the DB on another box, and see how long things take.

    rdfield

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