Re: perl garbage collector - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Vivek Khera
Subject Re: perl garbage collector
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Msg-id DE3C0DB6-143B-4793-8212-6691570C70F9@khera.org
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In response to perl garbage collector  (Jean-Max Reymond <jmreymond@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-performance
On Jun 27, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Jean-Max Reymond wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a stored procedure written in perl and I doubt that perl's
> garbage collector is working :-(
> after a lot of work, postmaster has a size of 1100 Mb and  I think
> that the keyword "undef" has no effects.
> Before tuning my procedure, does it exist a known issue, a
> workaround ?

just because your application frees the memory doesn't mean that the
OS takes it back.   in other words, don't confuse memory usage with
memory leakage.


Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
+1-301-869-4449 x806



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