I have resolved my issue, and I will follow that up with another email.
But to answer the questions below.
Tom,
I am not using perl's malloc, I am using the system malloc. When you
asked this question, I also reviewed the perl installation on 8 other
stand-alone systems that I have installed perl on. They are also all
using the system malloc.
Jay,
Even at the point things were at, I wouldn't describe the CPAN shell as
completely dead. From my perspective, a system admin who adds perl
modules and writes/modifies simple scripts, as I added more modules, the
less I could do in the CPAN shell.
I realize that this is short, and I may have not provided enough
information history to fully describe what I was experiencing. If you
have more questions, please let me know.
Jerry
Jay Savage wrote:
On 3/15/06, Tom Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 3/15/06, Jerry Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
# perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> reload index
Out of memory!
Was your perl compiled to use your system's malloc(), or Perl's own?
You can find out with a command like this one:
perl -MConfig -lwe 'print $Config{usemymalloc}'
Whichever you used, if you try recompiling with the other, your "Out
of memory" problems may silently vanish. Then again, maybe not; but it
seems worth a try at this point. Some systems only work properly with
Perl's malloc(), others only with their own.
Good luck with it!
--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training
Beat me to it. I was just thinking on the subway this morning, "I
wonder if Solaris has messed with their malloc()." But if that's the
case, shouldn't the problem be cropping up elsewhere, too? Why would
CPAN be the only module failing?
I had one more question for Jerry, too: is all of cpan dead, or just
the shell? What happens with something like:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::CPAN'
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