Updated:
Try to fetch all results and then store them into file: 
#select the fields from the database
$dbh = gsm::connect ();
$sth=$dbh->prepare ("select * from meetings order by meetings.id");
$sth->execute ();
my $results = $sth->fetchall_arrayref();
#cleanup
$sth->finish; 
$dbh->disconnect();

open SAVE, '/some/file' or die "Cannot open file:$!";
#process the columns received, one at a time
for my $row (@$results) {
    print SAVE join("\t", @$row)."\n";         
}

close SAVE;

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Also, you can use module "Time::HiRes" to see when do you have a bottle-neck.

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Michael Stepanov aka nite_man

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In reply to Re: Perl MySql by nite_man
in thread Perl MySql by rzayas

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