Assuming that I don't want to recompile Perl with -DDEBUGGING_MSTATS, what's the easiest way to determine memory usage on RH9 Linux (RAM and swap)? Is it to manually read the /proc/$$/statm file?
I'm playing around with tail recursion techniques and it looks like goto &code is leaking memory. This appears to be a known issue, even though perl561delta lists this problem as fixed and I'm using 5.8.0 (yeah, I know. I need to upgrade).
Update: Eh, what the heck. This is a test box, so I'm upgrading to 5.9.1 and adding -DPERL_DEBUGGING_MSTATS anyway. Of course, reading the source reveals that the problem appears to be fixed, but we'll see.
