From: "Luke A. Kanies" <luke@...>
Date: 2003-12-16T10:04:07+09:00
Subject: Re: extremely strange segfault

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

>
> Is is feasible to GC.disable in your app? That would at least tell you
> if it is a mark/free related bug.

I can't test it until I get back to work, but how would I do that?  There
certainly is a decent amount of memory shunting involved, since I'm doing
an ldap query, creating a bunch of objects based on the results, and then
storing the objects in various and sundry groups, along with some
self-rolled auto-vivication.

Basically, I'm pulling a host list from ldap, converting each host into an
object, using some basic logic to store that host in groups for which I've
set up pseudo-autovivication, and then looping across each host to do some
other stuff.

I've had some strange issues with ldap, and I miss the all-perl Net::LDAP
with SSL, but it basically worked until I started with the autovivication
and adding the objects to lots of groups.  That's why I figure I can
isolate the problem some, but I got sidetracked into trying to make my
lexer perform better (it's taking about 12 seconds just to tokenize a 99k
file, which seemed high, so...).

Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to isolate this problem at least into a
specific component, but so far it's been, um, strange.

Luke

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