App getting bigger and bigger

[Yannick Turgeon]

Hello all,

I just make a program in perl. My first one in fact. Which use some WWW
packages to start a http session, log to a site, download some pages and treat
these data.

The problem I have now it's that while executing, my program is taking
more and more memory. What should I look for to solve this? Perl has a
garbagge collector so I did not worry freing anything. Should I?

The program is a endless loop (while(1)...). At each iteration it creates
objects inside the only function called:

Create my objects Obj
while(1){
Obj->CallMyFunction();
sleep(60);
}

I supposed every object and variable created inside CallMyFunction() were
freed from memory after quiting the function. Inside this function, I
create another type of object which has "Obj" has member variable. Could it
cause a problem. I do not store anything in Obj at each iteration. It has
its initial variables and they don't change.

Hope it's clear and thanks for your help.

Yannick

 

[Yannick Turgeon]

Forget about this.

One of the package I use was storing EVERY webpage I was downloading to
provide some other functionality. You can imagine!

Yannick

Le Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:23:09 -0400, Yannick Turgeon a écrit :