Well, you definitely don't want to die in the middle of a file - that'll make things too complicated - so you probably don't want to just kill and restart it. What you -could- do is check memory usage after each file and then exit if you've built up more than a certain percentage of memory usage. This works on my system:

use strict;
use warnings;

my ($data, $mem);
my $kb = ' ' x 1024**2;

do {
    $data .= $kb;
    $_ = `ps -p $$ -o %mem`;
    ($mem) = m/(\d+\.\d+)/;
}
while ($mem < 50);

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You could also have it check for a file named a certain thing (like exit.txt) and exit if it sees that as well, deleting before exit so you're prepped for the next run.

In reply to Re: Gracefully exiting and restarting at a later time. by TJPride
in thread Gracefully exiting and restarting at a later time. by Largins

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