Re: Reducing memory footprint?

Nick Ing-Simmons (nik@tiuk.ti.com)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:28:47 GMT


Dan Sugalski <sugalskd@osshe.edu> writes:
>At 10:50 PM 3/9/99 +0000, Alan Burlison wrote:
>>Thanks for the suggestions - I thought that it would be too good to be
>>true if there was a 'magic bullet'.  Ah well, I suppose we'll just have
>>to add in another dozen CPUs and another 6 0r 7 Gb of memory then ;-)
>
>Have you tried building with perl's malloc? Might save you a bit. 

Solaris malloc (at least one in Solaris2.4) uses less memory than 
perl's malloc (at least with default build options for perl malloc). 

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Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
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