Try reducing the value?

It causes a "Perl Command Line Interpreter has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." popup on my system for values 1e9, 1e10 & 1e11, but not 1e12.

For the former values I can hear the disk thrash as it attempts to free up swap space to accomodate the malloc.

With the latter, which is bigger than my combined physical memory and reserved swap space, there is no thrashing as it knows it cannot accomodate that size. In that case, malloc() just returns null and perl quits silently.

It's possible you have different system settings (like Control Panel->System->Advanced->Startup & Recovery->Settings or others) that affect your systems actions when these errors occur.

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In reply to Re^4: Prevent Perl Command Line Interpreter Popup From Appearing On Perl Crash by BrowserUk
in thread Prevent Perl Command Line Interpreter Popup From Appearing On Perl Crash by WAmaro

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