Wow! That's fascinating! Thanks for sharing! I'm surprised by how much the memory footprint grows for a minimal perl program to one running M::L!
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 2:57 PM Charlie Brady < charlieb-m...@budge.apana.org.au> wrote: > > Hi Stefan, thanks for trying to help. > > I know the perl executable will make some contribution to the memory > footprint, but not much. > > I can measure that separately by running a minimum perl program and > looking at its resource usage. If I run 'perl -e "<>"', I see this in > /proc/$pid/status: > > ... > VmPeak: 5476 kB > VmSize: 5476 kB > VmLck: 0 kB > VmPin: 0 kB > VmHWM: 3184 kB > VmRSS: 3184 kB > VmData: 468 kB > VmStk: 132 kB > VmExe: 4 kB > VmLib: 4232 kB > VmPTE: 24 kB > VmPMD: 0 kB > VmSwap: 0 kB > Threads: 1 > ... > > The same data from my M::L daemon is: > > ... > VmPeak: 135548 kB > VmSize: 133540 kB > VmLck: 0 kB > VmPin: 0 kB > VmHWM: 67016 kB > VmRSS: 65988 kB > VmData: 86940 kB > VmStk: 176 kB > VmExe: 4 kB > VmLib: 31664 kB > VmPTE: 132 kB > VmPMD: 0 kB > VmSwap: 0 kB > Threads: 6 > ... > > CPAN has a few modules which might help gather some stats > (Memory::Process, Memory::Stats, Memory::Usage). '-Dm' flag to perl might > help too, if perl is compiled with DEBUG enabled. > > I notice that I can disable Mojolicious response cacheing; it'll be > interesting to see what difference that makes. > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2018, Stefan Adams wrote: > > > I shouldn't involve myself in this topic because I haven't the knowledge, > > but it sounds fascinating. Wouldn't the majority of the 50MB memory > > footprint be from the Perl interpreter itself? Wouldn't the question be, > > how to reduce the size of the Perl interpreter? Different compile > options? > > e.g. I remember once compiling a "minimal" perl that was 2MB. I imagine > > that would probably be insufficient to run Mojolicious, though I really > > haven't a clue, but it suggests to me that it's possible to reduce the > size > > of the perl interpreter and, therefore it seems, the size of the > > Mojolicious daemon? > > > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 8:19 PM Charlie Brady < > > charlieb-m...@budge.apana.org.au> wrote: > > > > > > > > Some Mojolicious::Lite code I've written has been adapted by another > group > > > in my company to run on their embedded controller (limited CPU and > limited > > > memory). They are now asking for my advice on how to reduce the memory > > > footprint of their daemon. It's consuming about 50MB at the moment. > > > > > > Does anyone have some advice on where to start looking at where memory > is > > > being used and how to minimise it? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mojolicious" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mojolicious+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mojolicious@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mojolicious. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
