Thanks everyone for the replies.

A quick update:

I was indeed doing something wrong. I was printing out error and status messages for each step in my parsing loops. For a big scrape job like the one I'm in the midst of, this could be hundreds of thousands of lines which was causing Terminal to chew up RAM.

So, I've commented out all but a couple critical lines and immediate symptom solved.

However, I think the nohup suggestion will actually solve the problem. Not having to keep a terminal window and SSH session open after executing a script sounds like a dream!

Thanks again!

In reply to Re^2: Is SSH the only way to execute remote, one off PERL scripts? by adornach
in thread Is SSH the only way to execute remote, one off PERL scripts? by adornach

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