Re: Total Memory Size Used up by a Perl Script

Try using Devel::Size::total_size on %::;

perl> use Devel::Size qw[ total_size size ];;

perl> print total_size( \%:: );;
[warnings omitted]
264621

perl> @a = 'A'..'M';;
perl> print total_size( \@a );;
446

perl> print total_size( \%:: );;
[warnings omitted]
265437

perl> @b{ 1 .. 100000 } = 1..100000;;
perl> print total_size( \%b );;
4813243

perl> print total_size( \%:: );;
[warnings omitted]
6803729
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As you can see, the numbers don't exactly add up, but the do give you a pretty good ballpark figure.

Now, if only I can work out how to supress that dratted warning.

Update: I found it: $Devel::Size::warn=0;. With that, you can get a rough idea of where the memory your script uses is being used:

perl> use Devel::Size qw[ total_size ];;
perl> $Devel::Size::warn = 0;;
perl> print $_, ':', total_size( \$::{$_} ) for keys %::;;
/ : 382
stderr : 289
SIG : 3705
, : 399
utf8:: : 4359
" : 307
_<c:/Perl/site/lib/auto/Devel/Size/Size.dll : 479
DynaLoader:: : 15131
Devel:: : 7292
strict:: : 2185
stdout : 289
↕ : 262
| : 378
_<c:/Perl/lib/auto/Time/HiRes/HiRes.dll : 463
Mac:: : 1701
Regexp:: : 948
_<c:/Perl/lib/auto/Data/Dumper/Dumper.dll : 469
UNIVERSAL:: : 1872
overload:: : 10646
$ : 287
Data:: : 22260
- : 679
_<..\universal.c : 363
_<HiRes.c : 343
BEGIN : 287
! : 402
IO:: : 943
☼ : 394
total_size : 487
↑ : 345
_ : 414
+ : 679
Exporter:: : 16111
Internals:: : 3384
STDIN : 287
Config:: : 54023
warnings:: : 19489
DB:: : 850
Time:: : 10381
_<.\win32.c : 343
▬ : 345
_<perllib.c : 343
cmpthese : 489
1 : 402
↨ARNING_BITS : 400
CORE:: : 930
_<Size.c : 339
attributes:: : 962
stdin : 287
ARGV : 405
INC : 2499
timethis : 489
ENV : 6657
Scalar:: : 1810
? : 395
vars:: : 1545
_<..\perlio.c : 351
XSLoader:: : 1247
B:: : 951
main:: : 264297
AutoLoader:: : 2800
VMS:: : 1224
Carp:: : 11075
Win32:: : 11257
PerlIO:: : 2370
0 : 431
 : 562
_<..\xsutils.c : 355
@ : 950
Benchmark:: : 25689
STDOUT : 289
] : 355
↨ : 407
Dumper : 479
STDERR : 289
bytes:: : 2985
_<Dumper.c : 345
_<dl_win32.c : 330
<none>:: : 460
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Re^2: Total Memory Size Used up by a Perl Script
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 08, 2005 at 16:33 UTC

To answer a few questions asked by /msg.

What is Perl>?
It's a twenty-line script called p1.pl that is effectively similar to doing perl -de1 except is loads a few useful modules and accepts multiple lines of input until one is terminated with ;;
What is the meaning of the double semi-colons?
See above.
Why the diff is so big between the two examples: total_size( \@a );; and total_size( \%:: );;
%\:: is (effectively) the symbol table for whole script, including all modules loaded.
When you do total_size( \%:: );;, it is accumulating the sizes of most^* the code space, and all of the data space use by everything that makes up the script, inclduing that space used by all modules that are loaded, and some of the code and data space loaded (into every script) by Perl itself.
^*See the Devel::Size docs where it explains that the numbers for CVs (code structures) are not complete. Don't expect the accumulated sizes to add up exactly. It gives a good idea of where your script is consuming memory, without being exact.
It will include the space consumed by any variables created by your program (@a in the example) and various other bits and peices including some of the code and data loaded by the Devel::Size module itself, and the various modules ( Carp, Exporter, XSLoader etc. ) that D::S causes to be loaded.
The long list in the Update above, is the results of dumping the keys and total_sizes of %:: individually from within p1.pl, and shows amongst other things that it also loads Data::Dumper, and Benchmark.
It also shows various global structures set up by Perl. Eg.
- %ENV is using 5,557 bytes.
- %SIG is using 3,705 bytes.
- %INC is using 2,495 bytes.
- @ARGV is using 405 bytes.
- With a little thought it is possible to work out most of the others.For example, the character '↨' using 407 bytes is ascii 23:
```
perl> print ord '↨';;
23
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```
  which translates to $^W, and '↑' is 24, $^X which is the name of the script.
- ...and so on.

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