You don't post code so in generalities. It will almost inevitably be faster and more memory efficient to use system tools like gunzip, tar and rm directly than do the same in perl. Highly optimised C should beat Perl every time both in memory and speed terms. There is simply less overhead and at the end of the day things like Compress::Zlib are just wrappers on the standard system libraries and calls. Tools like top and Devel::DProf Devel::Leak and Devel::LeakTrace are available to diagnose issues.

If you post example code I am sure you will get lively interest.

cheers

tachyon


In reply to Re: How to find a memory leak - appears to be "system" calls that are responsible by tachyon
in thread How to find a memory leak - appears to be "system" calls that are responsible by naum

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