Re: Bug in Perl or LWP? Or am I missing something?

Gisle Aas (aas@sn.no)
27 Aug 1998 11:27:01 +0200


"Jess O'Leary" <jess@telecom-pros.com> writes:

> The simple code below, using LWP::Simple, balloons to about 15megs after
> 400 or so passes through the loop. Any ideas why? I'm using the latest
> versions of both Perl and LWP with BSD ...
> 
> foreach (@urls) {
> 
>      $doc = get $_;
>      if ($doc =~ /$query/i) { $i++; }
> 
> }
> 
> 
> Thanks for any insight,

I don't really have any concrete ideas.  Is the second line that
builds the regexp necessary to demonstrate the memory growth?  Does it
help if you use /$query/io instead?

Regards,
Gisle