Re: memory leak in syncdb

Syncdb -- isn't that a Perl script? What version of Perl are you running? Any Perl5 version before 5.004_04 contains memory leaks of some sort, and even 5.004_04 probably still contains some. Perl 4.036 seemed not too bad, but that's an ancient version now, so I wouldn't bet on it.

Yes, I experienced various sort of memory leaks in earlier versions of perl 5, but currently I'm running 004_04/solaris and most of the memory problems with other programs vanished. still syncdb is 0.5GB in size which seems much for an innocent script like it is. But probably you're right blaming in on perl. I'm curious if anyone else experienced this with syncdb and found any solution to it ? Thanks, --w