Hi!

I have a very simple perl hello-world script.
I use GTop utility to measure the memory taken by the script.
The results GTop provides confuse me.

When I run the script from the command line GTop says it consumes 7M.
However when I run the script under mod_perl it consumes 54M.
So much?!

Why script memory grows so much under mod_perl?
Or maybe I measure the memory in a wrong way?
How do you profile perl script memory?

Here are the script and its output (I have added commas manually to easily read the numbers)

1. Run from command-line
perl simple.pl 

size:
 7,282688
share: 2,027520
diff: 5,255168

2. Run under mod_perl

size: 54,878208
share: 4,661248
diff: 50,216960

Script simple.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI ();

my $cgi = CGI->new;

print $cgi->header('text/plain');

use GTop;

print "Hello, world!\n";
my $m = GTop->new->proc_mem($$);
print "size: ".$m->size."\n";
print "share: ".$m->share."\n";
my $diff = $m->size - $m->share;
print "diff: $diff\n";

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In reply to Can I compute memory taken by a perl script? by donald128

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