Hello!

I am currently experiencing problems with Perl 5.6.1 on AIX 4.3 compiled with large file support.

We have scripts that perform an sort on some data-files to remove duplicates before these files get loaded into the database. These are legacy-scripts that I only maintain and would not like to change.

The problem that I now see is that scripts (that still run fine with the old Perl version (5.5.3)) run out of memory when running under 5.6.1. (This is especially bad since we are expecting the data-files to get bigger (this was the reason to use 5.6.1 with large file support in the first place).

I have tried to link Perl with -bmaxdata:0x80000000 but the problem did not go away (maybe I've been doing something wrong).

Does anybody have any idea about how to get around this problem?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

In reply to memory problems with 5.6.1 on AIX by earl

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