在Perl中,如何释放内存到操作系统？

我在Perl中有一些记忆问题.当我填满一个大的哈希时,我无法将内存释放回操作系统.当我使用标量执行相同操作并使用undef时,会将内存恢复到操作系统.

这是我写的一个测试程序.

#!/usr/bin/perl
###### Memory test
######

## Use Commands
use Number::Bytes::Human qw(format_bytes);
use Data::Dumper;
use Devel::Size qw(size total_size);

## Create Varable
my $share_var;
my %share_hash;
my $type_hash = 1;
my $type_scalar = 1;

## Start Main Loop
while (true) {
    &Memory_Check();
    print "Hit Enter (add to memory): "; <>;
    &Up_Mem(100_000);
    &Memory_Check();

    print "Hit Enter (Set Varable to nothing): "; <>;
    $share_var = "";
    $share_hash = ();
    &Memory_Check();

    print "Hit Enter (clean data): "; <>;
    &Clean_Data();
    &Memory_Check();

    print "Hit Enter (start over): "; <>;
}

exit;


#### Up Memory
sub Up_Mem {
    my $total_loops = shift;
    my $n = 1;
    print "Adding data to shared varable $total_loops times\n";

    until ($n > $total_loops) {
        if ($type_hash) {
            $share_hash{$n} = 'X' x 1111;
        }
        if ($type_scalar) {
            $share_var .= 'X' x 1111;
        }
        $n += 1;
    }
    print "Done Adding Data\n";
}

#### Clean up Data
sub Clean_Data {
    print "Clean Up Data\n";

    if ($type_hash) {
        ## Method to fix hash (Trying Everything i can think of!
        my $n = 1;
        my $total_loops = 100_000;
        until ($n > $total_loops) {
            undef $share_hash{$n};
            $n += 1;
        }

        %share_hash = ();
        $share_hash = ();
        undef $share_hash;
        undef %share_hash;
    }
    if ($type_scalar) {
        undef $share_var;
    }
}

#### Check Memory Usage
sub Memory_Check {
    ## Get current memory from shell
    my @mem = `ps aux | grep \"$$\"`;
    my($results) = grep !/grep/,@mem;

    ## Parse Data from Shell
    chomp $results;
    $results =~ s/^\w*\s*\d*\s*\d*\.\d*\s*\d*\.\d*\s*//g; $results =~ s/pts.*//g;
    my ($vsz,$rss) = split(/\s+/,$results);

    ## Format Numbers to Human Readable
    my $h = Number::Bytes::Human->new();
    my $virt = $h->format($vsz);
    my $h = Number::Bytes::Human->new();
    my $res = $h->format($rss);

    print "Current Memory Usage: Virt: $virt  RES: $res\n";

    if ($type_hash) {
        my $total_size = total_size(\%share_hash);
        my @arr_c = keys %share_hash;
        print "Length of Hash: " . ($#arr_c + 1) . "  Hash Mem Total Size: $total_size\n";
    }
    if ($type_scalar) {
        my $total_size = total_size($share_var);
        print "Length of Scalar: " . length($share_var) . "  Scalar Mem Total Size: $total_size\n";
    }

}

OUTPUT：

./Memory_Undef_Simple.cgi 
Current Memory Usage: Virt: 6.9K  RES: 2.7K
Length of Hash: 0  Hash Mem Total Size: 92
Length of Scalar: 0  Scalar Mem Total Size: 12
Hit Enter (add to memory): 
Adding data to shared varable 100000 times
Done Adding Data
Current Memory Usage: Virt: 228K  RES: 224K
Length of Hash: 100000  Hash Mem Total Size: 116813243
Length of Scalar: 111100000  Scalar Mem Total Size: 111100028
Hit Enter (Set Varable to nothing): 
Current Memory Usage: Virt: 228K  RES: 224K
Length of Hash: 100000  Hash Mem Total Size: 116813243
Length of Scalar: 0  Scalar Mem Total Size: 111100028
Hit Enter (clean data): 
Clean Up Data
Current Memory Usage: Virt: 139K  RES: 135K
Length of Hash: 0  Hash Mem Total Size: 92
Length of Scalar: 0  Scalar Mem Total Size: 24
Hit Enter (start over): 

所以,你可以看到内存下降,但它只会降低标量的大小.任何想法如何释放哈希的内存？

另外Devel::Size显示,即使程序仍在使用139K,散列仅占用92个字节.

解决方法

一般来说,是的,这就是UNIX的内存管理工作原理.如果您正在使用最新的glibc,并且正在使用该malloc,您可以将free’d内存返回到操作系统.我不知道Perl是否这样做.

如果要使用大型数据集,请勿将整个内容加载到内存中,使用像BerkeleyDB这样的东西：

https://metacpan.org/pod/BerkeleyDB

示例代码,逐字删除：

use strict ;
  use BerkeleyDB ;

  my $filename = "fruit" ;
  unlink $filename ;
  tie my %h,"BerkeleyDB::Hash",-Filename => $filename,-Flags    => DB_CREATE
      or die "Cannot open file $filename: $! $BerkeleyDB::Error\n" ;

  # Add a few key/value pairs to the file
  $h{apple}  = "red" ;
  $h{orange} = "orange" ;
  $h{banana} = "yellow" ;
  $h{tomato} = "red" ;

  # Check for existence of a key
  print "Banana Exists\n\n" if $h{banana} ;

  # Delete a key/value pair.
  delete $h{apple} ;

  # print the contents of the file
  while (my ($k,$v) = each %h)
    { print "$k -> $v\n" }

  untie %h ;

(好的,不是逐字的,他们使用vars是…遗产…)

您可以通过这种方式将哈字节数据存储在哈希中,您只能使用一小段内存. (基本上,无论BDB的寻呼机决定保持记忆,这是可控的.)