On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:21:09PM -0800, Jason Remillard wrote: > I ran the codestriker (http://codestriker.sourceforge.net/) test set > using Devel::Cover. The test cases ran over a day and a half > and generated a cover_db directory that is 127 megs. Attempting to run > the cover command keeps using up all of the available memory causing > cover to be killed by the OS. I have my swap file up to 1 gig, and after > two days of the computer swapping its brains out, it still was not > enough memory.
How big is this test suite? How long does it usually take to run? Just trying to get an order-of-magnitude feel here. > Lastly, some documentation on how to use with with a normal cgi script > would be helpful. The way I finally got it to work was to rename > codestriker.pl (the main cgi perl script), to codestriker_test.pl. > Write a new codestriker.pl that just does a system call with the > Devel::Cover switch. Perl would not let me add it to the > #!/usr/bin/perl line at the start of the script. I would be interested > in knowing if a cleaner way is possible, as this is kind of lame. You just have to say "use Devel::Cover" in your program. That's what -MDevel::Cover means. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ It's Yellowing Laudanum time!
