From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 18 04:27:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA19352 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 04:27:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from epochal (epochal.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.19.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA19347 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 04:26:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from triumph.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.24.1] by epochal with smtp (Exim 0.41 #1) id E0tybkC-0006nv-00; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:00:53 +0000 Message-ID: <314D565C.15FB7483@doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 12:26:04 +0000 From: Lee McLoughlin Organization: IC-Parc, Imperial College, London. U.K. X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Donovan CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mirror and perl References: <2.2.32.19960318050150.0072cd74@falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Scott Donovan wrote: > > >Oh dear! I've found mirror-2.8 + perl5.001m to be pretty good. > > I would have to agree, opn all but one point. the -F option always tries to > write the db files in the / directory.. highly anoying.. 2.3 didn't do > this.. just leeked memory :-) Make ONE mistake (that gets noticed :-) ... Besides technically it was perl leaking not mirror. 2.8 has code to try and get around the leak. -- Lee McLoughlin. Phone: +44 171 594 8388 IC-Parc, Imperial College, Fax: +44 171 594 8449 South Kensington, London. SW7 2BZ. UK. Email: L.McLoughlin@doc.ic.ac.uk