I'm writing perl that is searching for memory leaking processes from collected process data, and getting either "out of memory" or "Memory Fault(coredump)" issues. This code works fine on smaller machines with less processes, but it dies (on the last day of the week, argh!)when trying to create weekly summaries of busier boxes.

My questions:

  1. Is there a way to increase the memory perl needs to run, and get me out without code changes?
  2. Is there a way to tell perl to allow larger numbers of members in subscripted arrays? Think of variables like: 
    $process_details{$p_key}[ 5 ] = $mem_kbytes;

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  3. Or is there something simple that I don't know enough about perl yet to have stumbled over?

I'd post the code, but it is huge, and I'm not sure that it would help. I'd like to try this in general first and then see what happens.

Thanks in advance, oh hooded ones!

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