Re: Segment Fault(Core Dump)

I havn't run your code, but from my experiences with Tk programs I'll hazard a guess.

You are creating a new $ua ,$tree, and $formatter object for each cycle thru the loop, so maybe you are running out of memory? Have you monitored the memory usage as it runs? Is there a way for you to create the $ua ,$tree, and $formatter only once before you start the loop, then reuse them as you loop thru the data?

Maybe try undef the objects at the end of the loop, as a start.

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Re: Re: Segment Fault(Core Dump) by Fletch (Bishop) on May 17, 2004 at 14:33 UTC
Actually since he's reassigning to the same `$tree` et al each time through it the old ones (if any) should be getting deallocated. Problem is that `HTML::TreeBuilder` objects contain circular references and don't get garbage collected correctly. This is why the perldocs show that you're supposed to call `$tree->delete` when you're done with it.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: Segment Fault(Core Dump) by Anonymous Monk on May 17, 2004 at 15:36 UTC
Thanks everyone for replying. I'll try using "undef" and $tree->delete at the end of the main loop to clear the garbage up. Im suprised I didn't think of this sooner Cheers! Annonymous Monk	[reply]
Re: Re: Segment Fault(Core Dump) by rinceWind (Monsignor) on May 17, 2004 at 14:28 UTC
Don't think this is a Tk program; I see no Tk modules here. Any chance the OP could get dbx to produce a stack trace from the original core dump. This would help identify where the problem is. -- I'm Not Just Another Perl Hacker	[reply]