Current size of allocated perl memory?

brycen has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

So I'm tracking a memory leak. Can anyone suggest an easy way to get the current perl memory footprint? I tried Proc::ProcessTable and did not find it easy. I'd just like a count of allocated perl objects, or the total C memory size. Devel::Leak and Devel::Cycle have not worked for me, so I'm brute forcing it, and I'm pretty sure the road leads to DBI. Thanks!

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Re: Current size of allocated perl memory? by shmem (Chancellor) on Apr 07, 2009 at 23:58 UTC
print "current mem: ".`ps -o vsz= -p $$`*1024, $/ [download] For more accurate information, I'd compile a perl with `-DDEBUGGING`. See perlrun.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Current size of allocated perl memory? by almut (Canon) on Apr 07, 2009 at 23:29 UTC
Maybe GTop?	[reply]
Re: Current size of allocated perl memory? by brycen (Monk) on Apr 09, 2009 at 16:54 UTC
I found my memory leak by the way. It is in the C code of DBI's DBD::Pg 1.49 on Debian Etch. It uses the perl memory allocator, and affects BYTEA columns.	[reply]