Hi there! I wrote a sub which reads, sorts and writes some huge files (about 500MB). (Sorry, I can't read line by line.)
When this sub returns (simply "return 0;") I get a "software exception" because perl.exe couldn't read some memory. Writing data to file is still ok, all data available and not corrupted in any way (as far as I can see :-)
Even if I only read and return I get this crash. Is there any problem known with perl and huge memory usage? (If the files are only abou 400 MB I've got no problems.)
Perl 5.004 or 5.6.0, WinNT SP6, enough memory available (about 1 GB)

In reply to huge memory usage = software exception by Anonymous Monk

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