It appears it is maybe a system limitation or error not a script error or a bug in Perl (Unless you use a different version other than 5.8).

I ran your original script on my RedHat Linux box and my Windows XP Laptop (running activeperl) and it ran fine on both. 

[root@thegnuage perl-scripts]# perl -c abi
abi syntax OK
[root@thegnuage perl-scripts]# chmod a+x abi
[root@thegnuage perl-scripts]# ./abi
  1 is a square
  4 is a square
  9 is a square
 16 is a square
 25 is a square
 36 is a square
 49 is a square
 64 is a square
 81 is a square
100 is a square
  1 is a square
  4 is a square
  9 is a square
 16 is a square
 25 is a square
 36 is a square
 49 is a square
 64 is a square
 81 is a square
100 is a square
  1 is a square
  4 is a square
  9 is a square
 16 is a square
 25 is a square
 36 is a square
 49 is a square
 64 is a square
 81 is a square
100 is a square

[download]

The following is all I could capture from my Windows command prompt because XP's command.exe sux and I have not hacked the registry yet. 

 64 is a square
 81 is a square
100 is a square
  1 is a square
  4 is a square
  9 is a square
 16 is a square
 25 is a square
 36 is a square
 49 is a square
 64 is a square
 81 is a square
100 is a square
  1 is a square
  4 is a square
  9 is a square
 16 is a square
 25 is a square
 36 is a square
 49 is a square
 64 is a square
 81 is a square
100 is a square

[download]

What amount of Ram have you got in your system? Are you running many resource intensive apps at the same time as the script (Like any java apps)?

You could have a program giving you a memory leak and be unaware of it therefore you really are out of memory. Try a reboot and run the script again with minimal system apps running.

If after all that if you still get the error I would try reinstalling your perl interpretor or just compiling the script with perl2exe and then run it. If you still have the error I would say your memory sticks are going bad or one or all your DIMM slots on your systemboard are going bad and therefore giving erroneous indications.

In reply to Re: Unexpected 'Out of Memory' by Elijah
in thread Unexpected 'Out of Memory' by Abigail-II

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