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Ravi Maggon
Ravi Maggon

Reputation: 83

Run time memory of perl script

I am having a perl script which is killed by a automated job whenever a high priority process comes as my script is running ~ 300 parallel jobs for downloading data and is consuming lot of memory. I want to figure out how much is the memory it takes during run time so that I can ask for more memory before scheduling the script or if I get to know using some tool the portion in my code which takes up more memory, I can optimize the code for it.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 286

Answers (1)

Dave Sherohman
Dave Sherohman

Reputation: 46225

Regarding OP's comment on the question, if you want to minimize memory use, definitely collect and append the data one row/line at a time. If you collect all of it into a variable at once, that means you need to have all of it in memory at once.

Regarding the question itself, you may want to look into whether it's possible to have the Perl code just run once (rather than running 300 separate instances) and then fork to create your individual worker processes. When you fork, the child processes will share memory with the parent much more efficiently than is possible for unrelated processes, so you will, e.g., only need to have one copy of the Perl binary in memory rather than 300 copies.

Upvotes: 1

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