It is possible I could try running it in Win-XP but it would take quite a bit of setup.

Hm. It's possible that the code could be adapted for use on Linux, but I do not have that expertise.

The basic idea is that I have a module (Devel::MemWatch) that hooks the DB::DB() interface and pushes the current caller information (package/file/line no) onto a Thread::Queue as each line executes. It has a setable threshhold value above which it discards old information as it pushes new, effectively turning the queue into a circular buffer of the last N lines executed.

It also starts a background thread that wakes up every setable N millseconds and queries the process memory size from the system. If the memory expands beyond a setable limit, it dumps the circular buffer to stderr; doubles the memory limit, and goes back to monitoring.

The idea is that you get a dump of the last N lines that executed when the memory expanded beyond your preset limit. (And again every time it doubles again). Thus, you can quickly get an idea of what code was executing when the memory started to snowball.

The (unbelievably crude but functional) Win32 code looks like this:

#! perl -slw use strict; package Devel::MemWatch; use threads; use Thread::Queue; use Win32::API::Prototype; our %OPTS = ( LINES => 100, THRESHHOLD => 100 *1024, FREQUENCY => 2000, ); sub import { for ( @_[ 1 .. $#_ ] ) { my( $key, $value ) = split '='; $OPTS{ $key } = $value || '1'; } warn "@{[ %OPTS ]}\n"; } ApiLink( 'Kernel32', q[ HANDLE GetCurrentProcess( void ) ] ) or die $^E; ApiLink( 'Kernel32', q[ BOOL GetProcessHandleCount( DWORD h, LPDWORD c)] ) or die $^E; ApiLink( 'PSAPI', q[ BOOL GetProcessMemoryInfo( HANDLE Process, LPVOID p, DWORD cb ) ] ) or die $^E; sub getProcessMemoryInfo { my $hProcess = GetCurrentProcess( [] ); my $buf = pack 'L10', 40, (0) x 9; my $size = 40; if( GetProcessMemoryInfo( $hProcess, $buf, $size ) ){ # warn __LINE__; my( @MemStats ) = unpack( "L10", $buf ); my $memusage = int( $MemStats[3] / 1024 ); my $peak_memusage = int( $MemStats[2] / 1024 ); my $vmsize = int( $MemStats[8] / 1024 ); return wantarray ? ( $memusage, $peak_memusage, $vmsize ) : $m +emusage; } else { die "GPMI: $^E"; } } my $Q; BEGIN{ $Q = new Thread::Queue } sub DB::DB { # warn caller; my( $package, $file, $line ) = caller; scalar $Q->dequeue if $Q->pending > $OPTS{ LINES }; $Q->enqueue( "$package $file $line" ); return; } sub _dump { warn $Q->dequeue() . "\n" while $Q->pending; } async { warn "Watchthread started\n"; while( Win32::Sleep( $OPTS{ FREQUENCY } ) ) { my $mem = getProcessMemoryInfo(); # warn "Watchthread awoke:$mem\n"; if( $mem > $OPTS{ THRESHHOLD } ) { warn "Memsize: $mem\n"; $OPTS{ THRESHHOLD } *= 2; _dump() } } }->detach; 1;

Usage is:

perl -d:MemWatch=LINES=100,THRESHHOLD=100*1024,FREQUENCY=2000 yourscri +pt.pl

Where

The output looks like:

C:\test>perl -d:MemWatch=FREQUENCY=5000 junk9.pl FREQUENCY 5000 LINES 100 THRESHHOLD 102400 Watchthread started Memsize: 103156 main junk9.pl 8 main junk9.pl 9 main junk9.pl 9 main junk9.pl 8 main junk9.pl 9 main junk9.pl 9 ...

Maybe you can adapt it to your needs?


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In reply to Re^3: Getting a memory dump by BrowserUk
in thread Getting a memory dump by awy

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