One anecdote to relate: Where I work there is a piece of Perl code that processes thousands of emails. One of the early "bugs" discovered in this code was that it grew RSS wise and since there were several copies of this code running constantly this could become a problem. To solve the issue the developer added introspective code to determine the scripts RSS size and if it went over a certain amount it spawns and dies.

Given that you stated that the issue you are experiencing happens after the code has been running for a while maybe you could do something similar?

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
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In reply to Re^2: My code randomly stops working by blue_cowdawg
in thread My code randomly stops working by newbie1991

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