On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:39:21PM +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote: > This means that a Perl server that relies on a lot of modules, and which > forks for each connection (imagine a Perl-based web server), doesn't > consume acres of swap space just to have an in-memory image per Perl > process, of all the modules.
Are you sure the swap space allocation isn't mostly attributable to the poor locality in the Perl process's data structures ? -- Jason