On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > > Is there any convenient tool which can produce a detailed list of all > the memory usage of a Perl program during runtime? >
The best advice I've seen about profiling memory usage is to use an external tool called Valgrind[1] which is supposed to be very good for such work. There's a perlmonks thread which might help you with some env settings[2]. There's also a CPAN module called Test::Valgrind[3] and if you look at the "SEE ALSO" section[4] in its pod you will see a few other memory profiling options listed. Note the caveat, you'll likely want to use a perl built with debugging enabled. Apart from direct memory profiling, understanding where your code spends the most time might also help. Hands down the best module for that is Devel::NYTProf [5] - I would at least give it a try to see if it brings up anything. [1] http://valgrind.org/ [2] http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=550458 [3] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Valgrind [4] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Valgrind/lib/Test/Valgrind.pm#SEE_ALSO [5] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-NYTProf/ Cheers, -- Offer Kaye _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
