I know that you said you "HAVE TO" put the entire 50mb file into an in-memory complex datastructure. But begging your pardon for second-guessing that strategy (which isn't working for you), is it possible that you could use Tie::MLDBM instead, so that the seemingly in-memory datastructure can actually (mostly transparently) reside on your HD rather than in memory? ...just a thought.

I know that it's not 100% transparent, but it allows for modifiable datastructures of arbitrary complexity, while keeping them disk-based so that memory usage doesn't go through the roof. This will carry with it a performance hit, but maybe in a pinch slower is better than not at all.

You probably have a good reason for not doing this, but just in case, I thought I'd mention it on the off chance it might solve your problem without hacking Perl's internals to allow you to utilize more of your system's memory.


Dave

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

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