"Memleak" in test-script for memleak ... #17
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OK, this is not really a memleak, but the $mech-object keeps a history up to 8675309 entries and for normal sites this can get huge! -> for testing memleaks we don't need the $mech history
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OK, this is not really a memleak, but the $mech-object keeps a history up to 8675309 entries and for normal sites this can get huge!
-> for testing memleaks we don't need the $mech history
I was hunting a memleak with the code from Leak-Hunting in my app and at the end, after many hours spend i was totally confused that the memleak must be in Template::Toolkit! After adding many whitespaces to a template, the memleak gets bigger.
After some sleep and thinking about the test script i found the "memleak" in 3 minutes. Keeping all the rendered stuff alive in the $mech object won't help to find memleaks. So i added a "don't keep history" option to the $mech object and now i don't have a memleak anymore!
From the documentation of WWW::Mechanize:
=head2 $mech->stack_depth( $max_depth )
Get or set the page stack depth. Use this if you're doing a lot of page
scraping and running out of memory.
A value of 0 means "no history at all." By default, the max stack depth
is humongously large, effectively keeping all history.