in reply to Out of memory problem in Windows XP 32-bit: only 1GB occupied

A 32-bit OS should be able to handle all 4GB.

That's not so. 32-bit windows only make 2GB of virtual memory available to each process; the other 2GB is reserved for use by the OS.

That can be extended to 3GB using a startup switch, but then executables need to be re-built with a link time option to make use of it.

"Out of memory" error. Checking the Windows Task Manager I see that Perl is only using around 1GB.

It sounds like the program is trying to extend a hash that currently has consuming at or close to 1GB of data; When perl needs to extend a hash, it doubles the size of the base element; that may well be pushing you over the 2GB limit; hence you run out of memory.

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