Module for memory allocation

[leslie]

Hi monks,

I want to know how much memory my perl script is taken.
Is there any module available for finding this ?

[irah]

Use Devel::Size module from CPAN.

This module is used to find the memory usage of Perl variables. Read about the functions size and total_size from that module.

[irah]

Please gone through Memory Usage.

[lakshmananindia]

An unix way is by using the top command

[sundialsvc4]

It's important also to realize that Perl might ... at first blush ... appear to be “positively wasteful” in its memory-allocation. It uses an opportunistic memory manager that does not attempt to “minimize” the amount of memory that has been consumed. What it does seek to do is to provide good memory-allocation with an overhead pattern that is both consistent and predictable, even for programs that might run for months at a time without stopping.

The rationale behind this memory-management strategy has of course been discussed thousands of times throughout the Internet.

[boom]

Use this command du -sh yourperlprogram.pl