I am trying to load a hash table with 150 million key-value pairs.. my key is of length 12 bytes and my value 15. I have tried using DB_File. I cant seem to get it to load everything. Always balks after around 111 million.. any ideas? 
if( $a ne "            " )
      {
           if( !exists $Hash{$a} )
           {
              $Hash{$a} = $b;
           }
           else
           {
              $is_there = 0;
              $tmp_is_there = 0;
              $temp = $Hash{$a};
              
            foreach my $elt ( @{$Hash{$a}} )
            {               
               if ($elt eq $b) 
               {
                  $is_there = 1;
               }
               if ($elt eq $temp) 
               {
                  $tmp_is_there = 1;               
               }
            }
                                    
            if ( !$is_there ) 
            {
                push @{$Hash{$a}}, $b;   
                
            }        
            if ( !$tmp_is_there ) 
            {
                push @{$Hash{$a}}, $temp;                   
            }        
           }
      }

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In reply to millions of records in a Hash by johnkj

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