Re: Re: Webhosts: What are reasonable resource limits for Perl?

To follow up on that, the reply from pair Networks support told me to look at this page for resource limits. The memory limit there is 8M, and that's what I was quoting.

It just plain confuses me that I can compile Perl in its entirety (just did it this morning -- only the install failed, because I can't write to /usr/local/bin) .. yet I cannot install a Perl module. It seems odd that a building a module takes more resources than Perl itself.

I guess I still have a whack of learning to do. :)

--t. alex

"Of course, you realize that this means war." -- Bugs Bunny.

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Re (tilly) 3: Webhosts: What are reasonable resource limits for Perl? by tilly (Archbishop) on Jan 21, 2002 at 21:33 UTC
First of all I hope you know that you can reinstall Perl quite easily with the customized version written to your own home directory. Secondly at a guess your problem on install was using the CPAN module. While nice, it unfortunately routinely uses at least 16 MB on my machine. However downloading and installing modules manually should work just fine. And if all else fails, you can install them elsewhere then just copy them over. (Works for pure Perl modules quite well. Compiled ones, not always so.)	[reply]

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Re (tilly) 3: Webhosts: What are reasonable resource limits for Perl?
by tilly (Archbishop) on Jan 21, 2002 at 21:33 UTC

Secondly at a guess your problem on install was using the CPAN module. While nice, it unfortunately routinely uses at least 16 MB on my machine. However downloading and installing modules manually should work just fine. And if all else fails, you can install them elsewhere then just copy them over. (Works for pure Perl modules quite well. Compiled ones, not always so.)

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