Re: [mp2] Regex memory leak introduced in 5.8.1 causes havoc in mp2

2004-02-10 Thread Stas Bekman
Ged Haywood wrote: Hi there, On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Richard F. Rebel wrote: After upgrading to perl 5.8.1 from 5.8.0 during a distribution upgrade, I noticed a steady memory leak that eventually leads to the server failing. :( My question is, for a persistent mp2 app, is there a potential way t

Re: [mp2] Regex memory leak introduced in 5.8.1 causes havoc in mp2

2004-02-09 Thread Ged Haywood
Hello again, On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Richard F. Rebel wrote: > upgrading/downgrading distro provided base perl installations is > often more of a nightmare than it's worth. It can sometimes cause a little frustration, so I prefer to avoid the versions provided by the distributions in the first place

Re: [mp2] Regex memory leak introduced in 5.8.1 causes havoc in mp2

2004-02-09 Thread Richard F. Rebel
Yeah, well, upgrading/downgrading distro provided base perl installations is often more of a nightmare than it's worth. If no one else offers a work around, I guess it'll be the good ole: ./configure --prefix=/opt/ For perl, apache, mp2, and all supporting modules... :( On Mon, 2004-02-09 at

Re: [mp2] Regex memory leak introduced in 5.8.1 causes havoc in mp2

2004-02-09 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Richard F. Rebel wrote: > After upgrading to perl 5.8.1 from 5.8.0 during a distribution upgrade, > I noticed a steady memory leak that eventually leads to the server > failing. :( > My question is, for a persistent mp2 app, is there a potential way to > workaround

[mp2] Regex memory leak introduced in 5.8.1 causes havoc in mp2

2004-02-09 Thread Richard F. Rebel
Hello, I am writing this here because when I googled about this problem, Stas had found this bug as well and highlighted it's particularly bad side effects in persistent mp apps. I realize that it's a really a perl problem. I operate an application that serves about 15mil mp2 generated pages pe