I wonder if perl might have died from a fatal signal (like SIGSEGV), but your shell somehow doesn't report this? You can find this out by echoing the $? shell variable immediately after running the program from the shell. (This is for unix of course.)

You mention that the script uses much memory. If the system runs out of memory, you may get a fatal signal instead of a proper error message from perl. Also, you can get a signal if the reference counting MM deallocates a long list: an example is perl -we '$x = [$x] for 0 .. 100_000; warn 1; $x = (); warn 2;' but you may have to adjust the number 100_000 for your system.

If that's not the problem, then I guess you don't give enough information about the issue. You could try posting the script or even a simplified (non-functional) script that produces the same error.

In reply to Re: Script halting without error? by ambrus
in thread Script halting without error? by Jman1

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.