Profile, then find the worst offending areas, and target them. Perhaps a better data structure, or a different algorithm would change the usage.

Update: Perhaps one of the Devel::Size type modules might help with this.

Some algorithms have more memory overhead but run faster. Others run more slowly, but take less memory.

A contract I am doing right now has frozen data in a database (basically a key/value setup with a frozen representation of a HoHoHoH... structure as the value), Some of the values are causing the application to run out of memory when being processed. By making each level of the hash another column and letting the database do much of the heavy lifting, I am saving memory, hopefully saving time (not needing to thaw the large data structure), and making a much more scalable application.

In summary, the algorithm and data structure can make a tremendous difference.

--MidLifeXis

In reply to Re^3: A way to see how much 'memory' a program will take up in, say, mod_perl, so I can start to optimize it? by MidLifeXis
in thread A way to see how much 'memory' a program will take up in, say, mod_perl, so I can start to optimize it? by MashMashy

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