I feel silly following up tachyon's great analysis with something so mundane, but...

On the subject of why the file gets corrupted, I recommend looking for file-locking bugs in the code that's calling Storable::store.

As it happens, I ran in to this same exact problem last week, and it hasn't recurred since I fixed my file locking mechanism to actually, you know, prevent concurrent writes. ;)

(My problems occurred using Perl 5.8.3 and Storable 2.13 on FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE, btw.)

- Matt Riffle

In reply to Re: Small Corrupted Storable Retrieve Dies With an Invalid "Out of memory!" by mattriff
in thread Small Corrupted Storable Retrieve Dies With an Invalid "Out of memory!" by jbisbee

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