On Wed, 22 May 2002, Dan Wilga wrote:
> Oh ho! That's it. Now when I gracefully restart, the memory loss is
> only about 29 Kb -- a very reasonable number.
much better. with the modperl test suite, i only see a wee bit of leakage
on the first restart, then no leakage on restarts after that.
> So if that's the reason for the core dump, is there a bug fix to the
> offending module in the works?
it is fixed in 5.8.0-tobe with the patch below, which can also be applied
to 5.6.1
Index: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL
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RCS file:
/usr/local/cvs_repository/perl-current-mirror/ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -r1.1.1.1 DynaLoader_pm.PL
--- ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL 2001/01/04 01:55:35 1.1.1.1
+++ ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL 2001/06/19 05:10:22
@@ -80,8 +80,10 @@
@dl_require_symbols = (); # names of symbols we need
@dl_resolve_using = (); # names of files to link with
@dl_library_path = (); # path to look for files
-@dl_librefs = (); # things we have loaded
-@dl_modules = (); # Modules we have loaded
+
+#XSLoader.pm may have added elements before we were required
+#@dl_librefs = (); # things we have loaded
+#@dl_modules = (); # Modules we have loaded
# This is a fix to support DLD's unfortunate desire to relink -lc
@dl_resolve_using = dl_findfile('-lc') if $dlsrc eq "dl_dld.xs";
