Hi Monks,

I'm a newbie perl programmer. Sorry for my mistakes and for my English.

I'm developing a degree project to process a lot of data in real time, about 10 database records /sec. The aplication it's in a infinite loop that takes 10 records an process its inserting the results in another table.

I'm usign PostgresSQL 7.1.3 in a RedHat 7.2 (kernel 2.4.9-13enterprise) with DBD::Pg and DBI. My perl version is "v5.6.0 built for i386-linux". Another CPAN modules I'm usign are: Proc::Daemon, Data::Dumper (Only for debugging an loging purposes), GSM::SMS (Application core, with own modifications).

Monitorizing the app I can see that it eats a lot of memory, about 200MB (TOP INFO: SIZE 224M RSS 224M SHARE 1928 )after 30 min. and more. After reading some docs about perl and system malloc I'm a bit confusing, what it's better? now I have perl -V:d_mymalloc = undef.

Any Idea ?, In a production state I need about 5 app instance running in the same machine and then memory consumption would be a hard handicap.

Thanks

In reply to Perl memory Memory consumption by alfatux

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