With a bit of proactive work you don't have to worry about crashing your computer. 
use BSD::Resource;
my $limit = 100*1024*1024; # 100 MB
setrlimit(RLIMIT_AS, $limit, $limit);

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If you're using Apache, you can do this by making sure that the setrlimit utility is in your PATH, and setting the environment variable APACHE_ADDRESS_SPACE_MB to whatever you want before starting Apache.

This doesn't stop you from having to debug the problem, but this makes the bug be less of a development problem for you.

In reply to Re: How would you use perl debugging tools to pinpoint the problem here? by tilly
in thread How would you use perl debugging tools to pinpoint the problem here? by tphyahoo

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