memory usage in mod_perl

[David Miller]

Max Kanat-Alexander wrote on 1/16/07 7:56 PM:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:53:19 -0500 David Miller <justdave at bugzilla.org>
> wrote:
>> I was guessing that's probably what it was.  We don't have a whole
>> lot of variables that are likely to occupy huge amounts of memory.  A 
>> buglist is a darn good candidate.  A good start would probably be 
>> undef'ing the bug object cache in our cleanup handler.
>  
> 	Yeah, that is a good idea, and I'd love to do it. The problem is
> that we can't get that variable anymore--it's actually been undefined by
> perl, but perl didn't release the memory.
> 
> 	Basically what I'd really love to do is force perl to release
> all unallocated memory, but I have *no* idea how to go about that.

You probably have to walk the hash and undef all the things in it.  If 
you just undef the hash you leave a bunch of orphaned references.

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