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[jubegnx]

hello all,

my question is how do i prevent mechanize from eating ram viciously?

i've only been messing around with perl for a month or two and i wrote a few scripts that automate some sites and when i run them i noticed it takes 15min to eat the 512mb of ram

i'm sure that its the way i wrote the scripts its just that i don't know what i did wrong.. i compared them to other ones available out there and mine look retarded lol, a million if else statements etc... but there is no errors.

any advice?

[dirk]

Hi jubegnx,

that's not easy to answer without knowing the code.

Maybe your arrays are not emptied. If you could give some more code details
or send me the code I would check it.

Dirk

[jubegnx]

ok i'm in the middle of trying to fix some things, when i'm done i'm going to run it one last time and then il send it over... thanks

[JasonD]

Make sure you clean the history.

Most people forget that Mech has a real history function (backwards, forwards, reload etc.) so that is what consumes the memory

[jubegnx]

hey dirk, i tried the stack_depth option but now i cant run more than one instance of the script and also it doesn't fully finish the cycles?

** actually it stops within minutes of starting

[dirk]

Have you tried to use different values for stack_depth?

[jubegnx]

my mistake, yep the value 1 works i ran 10 instances of the script and it was fine finished the whole thing without running out of memory...

thanks