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Re^3: XML::Twig loves to eat my memory

by almut (Canon)
on Jul 22, 2010 at 20:17 UTC ( [id://850903]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: XML::Twig loves to eat my memory
in thread XML::Twig loves to eat my memory

In this case, create a minimal example that allows to replicate the problem (maybe with programmatically generated XML files), and submit a bug report — after having checked that you're using an up-to-date version of the module.

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Re^4: XML::Twig loves to eat my memory
by carcus88 (Acolyte) on Jul 22, 2010 at 21:05 UTC
    Here is a much more minimal example. Both times I tried this once without the extra purge() and once with. Both times memory was at 166MB after the dispose().
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use XML::Twig; my $inFile = '../data/2009/data_verified/abms_dialogb_10000000_1009999 +9.xml'; if ( ! $inFile ) { die("No input file specified"); } if ( ! -f $inFile ) { die("file '$inFile' not found"); } process($inFile); exit 0; # # Process the file # sub process { $inFile =~ /data_(\d+)_(\d+)/; my $t= new XML::Twig( TwigHandlers=> { BIOG => \&BIOG }, ); $t->parsefile( $inFile ); $t->purge(); # Will purge work? $t->dispose(); # Try to Free memory but does not work... } # # BIOG is XML element we are triggering # sub BIOG { my ($t, $BIOG)= @_; if ( ! checkBiog($BIOG->field('BIOG_NBR')) ) { print "Missing ". $BIOG->field('BIOG_NBR') . "\n"; } $t->purge(); # Tell XML::Twig to dispo of the rest of the tree we + don't care about return 1; } # # Check database for ID # sub checkBiog { my ($biog) = @_; return 1; }
    I will try to work on generating an example XML file. The current XML file is licensed data that I cannot share.
      ...memory was at 166MB after the dispose()

      Does the memory usage increase another ~166MB if you call process() a second time with the same file?  (Your original post sounds like it does, but just to be sure...)

      The reason I'm asking is because memory might not be returned to the OS immediately, but just freed for reuse Perl-internally.

        Yes it continues to increase
        Size after first process() 
        167,472 MB
        Size after second process()
        316,212 MB
        

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