[olug] perl cpan problem

[Jay Hannah]

On Sep 22, 2004, at 1:11 PM, <thelarsons3 at cox.net> wrote:
> Maybe there are some Perl gurus lurking...

Omaha Perl Mongers: http://omaha.pm.org

If this is purely a Perl thread, we should probably take it over to 
that mailing list instead of OLUG.

> I was trying to install XML and RSS modules from CPAN.  This didn't 
> work correctly, but the procedure suggested upgrading CPAN and 
> installing the libnet bundle.  OK, fine.  When these didn't work 
> either because of an "out of memory" error, I started looking closer 
> by running top.

What were you running when you got the error?

perl -MCPAN -e ... ?

Or some package manager? Or installing from source?

> While the process is running, it slowly uses more and more RAM until 
> all physical memory (80 MB) on the system is exhausted, then it dies.  
> I have 192 MB of swap that is barely touched - about 8 MB in use when 
> Perl starts, still the same when it dies.

While what process is running? Can you give us the exact command(s) 
you're having problems with?

> Using Perl 5.6.1.  Any ideas or random thoughts?

Random thoughts:
Computers suck. But not as much as telco. "I'd rather be sleeping."

j