I am writing a program that will need to maintain 2 linked lists, one where each node will contain roughly 40bytes of data each, and the other where the nodes will contain 338bytes.

The list with the smaller nodes will probably have as many as 1,000,000 nodes, the one with the larger node sizes will have about 60,000 nodes, That comes to 40bm + 20mb, 60mb, it is possible for each of these lists to double or half in size, the size of the lists are my predictions.

so I can be using anywhere from 30mb to 120mb for these 2 lists, not counting the actual nodes themselves..

I have 1gb of ram, plus 4gb of swap. I know my system has the memory to handle this, but does perl have problems with this much memory usage?

In reply to perl memory use question by exodist

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