Messages in this thread |  | | From | lilo <> | Date | Sat, 11 May 1996 22:22:46 -0500 (CDT) | Subject | Re: Change in 1.3.99 breaks perl4.036 running mirror-2.3 |
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On Fri, 10 May 1996, Michael Meissner wrote:
> I use mirror-2.3 to mirror files via FTP (which is written in Perl and > needs perl4.036, not perl5.xx). On 1.3.97, everything was ok. When I > went to 1.3.99, it caused mirror to loop until it filled all of memory > + swap (and for a 48 meg machine with 128 meg of swap, it takes > awhile).
This is a known memory-leak problem with perl4.036. Get mirror-2.8 and perl5. Fixes the problems nicely.
lilo
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