When I start cpan (win32, perl5.8.4), perl consumes about 12MB.
When I issue "m Tie::PureDB", memory consumption climbs to 56MB.
If I issue "reload index", memory consumption climbs to 80MB.
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04/17/2006  12:44 AM           113,646 01mailrc.txt.gz
04/17/2006  12:47 AM           437,330 02packages.details.txt.gz
04/17/2006  12:50 AM           114,181 03modlist.data.gz
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04/16/2006  03:35 PM           283,775 01mailrc.txt
04/16/2006  10:58 AM         3,003,067 02packages.details.txt
04/16/2006  07:04 PM           396,897 03modlist.data

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and creating a giant data structure out of all this data, can consume quite a bit of memory.

You need to examine the following (and probably other) CPAN settings (and their CPANPLUS equivalents, if any): build_cache, cache_metadata, dontload_hash.

update: Looks like my loose sugestion on the CPAN settings probably isn't very useful :(
#4943: CPAN module too memory intensive

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
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In reply to Re: CPAN module installation makes no progress on limited resource machine by PodMaster
in thread CPAN module installation makes no progress on limited resource machine by runderwo

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