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[Dan Pritts <address@concealed>]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 08:20:16PM +0200, address@concealed wrote:
> The size of the perl (5.8.4) binary itself is very large: 
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root root  1057324 2004-09-26 /usr/bin/perl
> 
> ...compared to the previous perl (5.8.0):
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root root  12572   Aug 13  2003 /usr/bin/perl
> 
> ...but that could be an anomaly. As you can see, a snapshot of "top" shows 
> how perl takes over the cpu when a webpage is hit:
> 

I can't address your bigger issue (other than to wonder if you somehow
are not running sympa under fcgi but just as a plain cgi, but your post
suggests you're sure it's not) but this perl binary size thing is almost
certainly due to build options.

you can build perl with most of its functionality in a shared
library, and the perl "binary" just a stub that loads the shared
library.

this means that this megabyte can be shared memory instead of unique
per process.

Other than the increased memory usage this should NOT affect performance.

danno
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