I can replicate this in 5.6.1 i686-linux and get a little more error message,

$ perl -Mwarnings -Mstrict -MFile::Glob=:glob -e'my @ary1 = glob q(/*)
+; my @ary2 = glob q(/home/*)'
Out of memory during "large" request for 1073745920 bytes, total sbrk(
+) is 367464 bytes at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux/File/Glob.pm lin
+e 127.
$
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but it runs fine for me in 5.8.1 i686-linux-thread-multi.