Why the ancient perl? You can try Configuring with -Uusemymalloc and see if that makes a difference. Or try perl5.8.3; I think there were some improvements in perl's malloc (what you get when mymalloc is set) but can't recall offhand the details (other than malloc.c got it's missing LotR quote added).

Update: http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=m3d6jsp4eq.fsf%40franz.ak.mind.de would seem to indicate perl's malloc does have a 1GB limit (though I didn't see an actual authoritative statement to that effect in that thread.)

I'd encourage you to submit a perl bug report (see perldoc perlbug), and try -Uusemymalloc. I note that you are not using 64bit pointers, so you are going to have at very best a 4GB (any quite possibly a 2GB) limit anyway. See README.hpux for information on building 64-bit perl.

In reply to Re: Out Of Memory error at 950MB with 14GB free RAM by ysth
in thread Out Of Memory error at 950MB with 14GB free RAM by aburker

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