I'm experiencing the same problem on a Suse8.0, perl 5.6.1 (P4, 1.7ghz) box. It loved it.

CPU states: 90.1% user,  9.8% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle
Mem:   126380K av,  123424K used,    2956K free,       0K shrd,    100
+4K buff
Swap:  672832K av,  356924K used,  315908K free                    350
+4K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
18144 deliria    0   0  371M  87M   480 R    94.1 70.6   1:05 perl
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