nonnonymousnonk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Hi monks,
I've written a fair ammount of perl over the years but now I'm working on a script that needs to run for a week or so. I'm just starting to get to grips with the debugger. My script is consuming large amounts of memory, enough that it will only run for a few hours. Everything is strict;
Devel:leak is showing me things like:
What on earth does that mean? How do I use it to track down the problem? Is this a red herring? Is there anything missing that compiling with -DDEBUGGING would add? If so am I stuffed, I'm using Activestate on WinXP? I can't move to a different platform because of the applications that perl is talking to.old (0): 0 old (0): 0 old (0): 0 new 0248BF0C : new 0248BFC0 :
Alternatively can you give me any pointers to good guides that will walk me through debugging memory problems from beginner to advanced?
Cheers
nonk
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