So I wrote a very simple DMOZ parser and downloader. Im running an array of 4380 URLs which get downloaded, the html stripped, then it discards the site and moves on. Its a proof of concept to see how long it will take to download a massive amount of sites using LWP and a couple other modules. After about 2200 URLs I get a seg fault. This is the code
#!/usr/bin/perl require LWP::UserAgent; use HTML::FormatText; use Time::HiRes; require HTML::TreeBuilder; print "Opening fetch file...\n"; #Open the DMOZ file open(tmp, "Top/Arts/Movies/domains"); @domains = <tmp>; close(tmp); #set variables used to output later $count=0; $interval=1; foreach(@domains) { $count++; $domain = "http://" . $_; $start = Time::HiRes::time(); my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $ua->timeout(10); $ua->env_proxy; my $response = $ua->get($domain); if ($response->is_success) { $content = $response->content; # or whatever } else { $response->status_line; } $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new->parse_file("file.html"); $formatter = HTML::FormatText->new(leftmargin => 0, rightmargin => + 50); $end = Time::HiRes::time(); $time = $end-$start; $total += $time; if($total >=(10*$interval) ) { print "$count sites in $total seconds\n"; $interval++; } }
Any suggestions as to why this is seg faulting?

In reply to Segment Fault(Core Dump) by Anonymous Monk

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