Re: Re: Re: Memory usage breakup

Just to chime in with my results. I don't know what version of perl sgifford was using, but I'm running perl 5.8.2 under Debian Linux. My results are:

VmSize:     3364 kB (start)
VmLck:         0 kB (start)
VmRSS:      1276 kB (start)
VmData:      708 kB (start)
VmStk:        16 kB (start)
VmExe:      1064 kB (start)
VmLib:      1480 kB (start)

VmSize:    22900 kB (allocated)
VmLck:         0 kB (allocated)
VmRSS:     20832 kB (allocated)
VmData:    20244 kB (allocated)
VmStk:        16 kB (allocated)
VmExe:      1064 kB (allocated)
VmLib:      1480 kB (allocated)

VmSize:    13132 kB (freed)
VmLck:         0 kB (freed)
VmRSS:     11068 kB (freed)
VmData:    10476 kB (freed)
VmStk:        16 kB (freed)
VmExe:      1064 kB (freed)
VmLib:      1480 kB (freed)
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My system seems to start with half a meg more RAM used (556K), but the percentage freed seems similar (42.7% for me vs. 43.7% for sgifford).

Does this imply a memory leak somewhere in perl, or that the garbage collector is caching the memory allocated for re-allocation later?

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