Hello Jay,
Thank you for your reply.
Jay Savage wrote:
>>
> Jerry,
>
> As others have said: comp.lang.perl.misc.
>
> The lack of replies, though, stems, I assume, from no one else having
> encountered this. The general rule of thumb around here is "don't
> answer unless you think you actually know what you're talking about."
> Not getting a response and being ignored are two completely differnt
> things around here. The wiser heads are probably scratching their
> chins over this as we speak, and as soon as someone has an answer for
> you, they'll chime in.
I assumed as much. As I am new here and had not received many replies, I was
merely asking for a "better suggested place" to ask my odd error messages
question. As I didn't get many hits as I did a web search, or when I searched
the archives, I realize that this is probably a rare issue.
>
> In the mean time, here are a couple of things I would look into:
>
> 1) Download the Bundle::CPAN tarball from CPAN and install it manually
> (untar, make, make install, etc., as for any other source build on a
> unix system).
will do
>
> 2) Try cpanplus, which should be installed as part of the default
> installation. The cpan until is being pahased out anyway, so we're all
> going to have to get comfortable with cpanplus at some point.
I haven't played with cpanplus yet, I will need to do some more RTFM'ing on cpan
plus.
>
> 3) Build modules you can't wait for by hand.
I am currently doing this. This works fine on modules with no to just a few
dependencies. It takes much longer on modules with deep dependencies.
>
> 4) And this is probably the most importnat point, make sure your
> problem is really with perl. While it's possible that cpan has some
> strange memory leak, this sounds, as Owen said in his first response,
> suspiciously like a quota problem.
I am doing my module build and installs as root
All the memory in the world won't
> help you if Perl can't access it. Also do a quick df and make sure
> that there's plenty of room in both your build directory and your
> installation directory.
The slice that I am building on has 53 Gb of disk space free.
The 20mb limit is just what cpan will leave
> lying around in the cache when it exits in case you want to quickly
> rebuild something without downloading it again. Some large modules,
> like any large source project, can use upwards of a gig of disc space
> ad certain points in the build process. make sure you have room on the
> volume where .cpan resides for the source of whatever module your
> installing and its uninstalled dependencies, the compiled binaries of
> whatever you're trying to install and its dependencies, and a
> reasonable amount of room for temporary build files. how much space
> you need depends on the specific modules, but I suspect some may need
> up to 2x the size of the fnial compiled binaries. I've never really
> looked at how most people handle XS builds, but in smoe C circles,
> compiling to a.out, cping a.out to the binary name, and then rming
> a.out is a pretty standard practice.
I have cleaned out my .cpan subdirectory in the hopes that it would be "just
that simple", unfortunately, it wasn't.
>
> 5) Look into other changes you've made to your system lately. Are you
> having trouble building anything else? Have you upgraded gcc recently?
> Are other applications having trouble allocating resources?
>
> 6) Show us the command line or script you're using to install, and the
> complete error message.
At this point, it is just
# perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> reload index
Out of memory!
I wish I had more of an error to share.
>
> This really sounds like a resource allocation issue. There's no
> earthly reason for the beahior you describe. Each time cpan starts,
> it's a new instance; it shouldn't matter what you've done with it
> before.
Agreed
>
> One last thought: you said this was for web services.
Yes, when complete, this system will be a web server.
You're not
> trying to manage your modules through a web interface running under
> mod_perl, are you?
no, mod_perl is not on this system. All my administrative activities have/are
taking place from a shell prompt.
Thank you again for your reply,
Jerry
>
> HTH,
>
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