Synopsis

  PerlLogHandler Apache::Symdump

Description

Apache::Symdump will record snapshots of the Perl symbol table for you to look at later.

It records them in ServerRoot/logs/symdump.$$.$n. Where $$ is the process id and $n is incremented each time the handler is run. The diff utility can be used to compare snapshots and get an idea of what might be making a process grow. Normally, new symbols come from modules or scripts that were not preloaded, the Perl method cache, etc.

  % diff -u symdump.$$.0 symdump.$$.1

Caveats

Apache::Symdump does not cleanup up its snapshot files, do so simply by:

  % rm logs/symdump.* logs/incdump.*

See Also

Devel::Symdump, Apache::Leak

Maintainers

Maintainer is the person(s) you should contact with updates, corrections and patches.

• The documentation mailing list

Authors

• Doug MacEachern

Only the major authors are listed above. For contributors see the Changes file.