Re: CPAN module installation makes no progress on limited resource machine

[PodMaster]

in reply to CPAN module installation makes no progress on limited resource machine

When I start cpan (win32, perl5.8.4), perl consumes about 12MB.
When I issue "m Tie::PureDB", memory consumption climbs to 56MB.
If I issue "reload index", memory consumption climbs to 80MB.
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04/17/2006  12:44 AM           113,646 01mailrc.txt.gz
04/17/2006  12:47 AM           437,330 02packages.details.txt.gz
04/17/2006  12:50 AM           114,181 03modlist.data.gz
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04/16/2006  03:35 PM           283,775 01mailrc.txt
04/16/2006  10:58 AM         3,003,067 02packages.details.txt
04/16/2006  07:04 PM           396,897 03modlist.data

and creating a giant data structure out of all this data, can consume quite a bit of memory.

You need to examine the following (and probably other) CPAN settings (and their CPANPLUS equivalents, if any): build_cache, cache_metadata, dontload_hash.

update: Looks like my loose sugestion on the CPAN settings probably isn't very useful :(
#4943: CPAN module too memory intensive

[runderwo]

Holy cow, thanks for the link. I tried searching for a while both on google and google groups and came up with nothing, so that's why I posted here. It's too bad that CPAN Plus did not address this problem. I am glad that I am not the only one with this problem though (i.e., I'm not crazy!)

The reason I would prefer to use CPAN than manually installing all the packages is because tracking and manually downloading all the dependencies (and their dependencies) is a complete pain. PEAR for PHP works, after all, so should CPAN. ;) Are there any alternatives to CPAN/CPANplus for perl package management?