The Windows memory-manager is known to be quite “lazy” and sometimes this characteristic produces memory-consumption that is quite larger than you intuitively suppose it should be.

My original problems started with "Out of memory" errors caused by Perl having eaten its 32-bit address space... Yes, I did set the thread stack_size ages ago.

Would it be possible, for example, to delegate one thread that actually owns the data-structure, and that provides information about it to the other processes on-request?

Yes, I tried this. The results were not as good as I expected. See a few post up.

I have now been working on using HTTP::Async to reduce the number of threads. After several fixes to HTTP::Async itself, I am starting to see improvement. While I am pretty happy with the results, I do regret the additinal layer of complexity I had to incorporate into my script.

To BrowserUk: I fully appreciate your comments but I don't think it would be fruitful to discuss the application design here. For starters, if starting ground-up now, I would most certainly do many things differently. :-)

In reply to Re^2: Sharing large data structures between threads by Anonymous Monk
in thread Sharing large data structures between threads by Anonymous Monk

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