Dear monks,

I am trying to troubleshoot a seg fault in a Perl script. It happens when I attempt to save a HoH to disk using Storable::store. Using DB, I can step right up to the store statement. At that point I can access elements of the HoH without any problem. Only when I attempt to execute the store step does the fault occur. The HoH is largish but not gigantic (1.5MB according to Devel::Size::total_size).

The fault occurs with version 5.8.4 of Perl together with either version 2.12 or 2.13 of Storable; it does not occurr with version 5.6.1 of Perl and version 2.05 of Storable. This indicates that the problem is either with perl or with Storable, and not with my program, but I don't know where to go from here. The program where this error occurs is large, so it would not be a good thing to submit as part of a bug report.

Any ideas you may have on where to go from this would be most welcome.

the lowliest monk

P.S. FWIW: 

% uname -ar
Linux luna 2.4.18-686-smp #1 SMP Sun Apr 14 12:07:19 EST 2002 i686 unk
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In reply to Troubleshooting a seg fault by tlm

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