Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> Interesting... I just chatted with Brian Somers (resident freeBSD
> guru) and he told me that he was getting the same problem under a
> normal perl, but when he recompiled his perl to use FreeBSD's malloc
> (rather than perl's own), the problem went away; he could restart
> apache 100,000 times
> with no memory leak.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/lang/perl5.8/Makefile?rev=1.49&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
I know they've gone back and forth on this a bit over the years....
Also, on FreeBSD check out the malloc(3) man page
sections: Tuning, Environment, and Examples
Perl vs FreeBSD has also been raised on this list before... check the
archives... I forget the context.
-Dusemymalloc=y is the default for lang/perl5.8
Also, the previous example had this same setting.
I'll try a manual compile with it off at some point.
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