Crash means: I get a pop-up saying "Perl Command Line Interperter Has Stopped Working... Windows can check for an online solution... bla bla blah.." and the program freezes. When you close the pop-up the cmd prompt comes back. "How large is the data base"? Good question. The porgram (basically) recursavly tarverces a directory tree. and stores information about each file (and directory).

For each file it stores: 

@deleted_file ----- bit flag: 1 or 0
@uenc_file_name -- string, just filename.ext
@dir_and_file_name- full path to file:
              like "c:\user\mark\adir\anotherdir\file.ext"
@date_time_mod -- 32 bit number (or 64?)
@file_size ------ 32 bit number (or 64?)
@encpd ------------ bit flag: 1 or 0)
@has_iden --------- bit flag: 1 or 0)

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For each directory it stors: 
@deleted_file[$i] --- bit 1 or 0
uenc_path_file ------ string, Same lenghth as @the_dir
@the_dir[$i] -------- String like c:\users\mark\adir\"
@first_pointer[$i] -- Porinter to the above list for the
          location of the first file in this dir
@last_pointer[$i] -- Pointer .... of the last file
@has_subdir[$i] ---- bit 1 or 0
@has_iden[$i] ------ bit 1 or 0

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In this instance, the number of files (entries) in the array is: 1776655 The number of directories is: 2105 So OVER ESTIMATING say 256 bytes per entry. With 1,776,655 is 454,823,680. Then we have 2105 * 256 = 538,880 so that brings us to ~500 Megabyts. Now times 4 because I use 4 different variables to store the database in so GRAND TOTAL IS: 2GB. (Wow, conicedence? Is there a cut-off of 2GB virtual memory with Windows?) As I said, there is 48GB Installed. I don't know how efficent perl is at using memory?

In reply to Re^2: I can crash perl by mark4
in thread I can crash perl by mark4

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