Thanks for your reply.

I have managed to reduce some of the memory usage (because I'm able to process more of the log now) but my program is still crashing. I'm having a problem tying the hashes whose elements are arrays e.g. 

tie %recipientqids, 'MLDBM', "/home/u752359/recipientqids.db", O_CREAT
+|O_RDWR, 0640 or die $!;
push(@{$recipientqids{$hostqid}},$recipient);
..
..
foreach $hostqid( @{$msgidqids{$msgid}}){
        foreach $recipient (@{$recipientqids{$hostqid}}){
                print STDERR "\nrecip= $recipient";
        }
}

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doesn't print anything if I tie the recipientqids hash.

Is my syntax wrong, or can you not store these structures with MLDBM?

Thanks,

js1

In reply to Re: hash on memory or disk? by js1
in thread hash on memory or disk? by js1

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