Hi - i've been using this perl script for quite some time to pull data from a directory, I have limited perl knowledge and recently the directory has grown very big. It is big enough that I now get a 'out of memory!' error when running the script in active state perl on my windows xp desktop. I've posted the code below...does anyone know how to fix this?

if ( $mesg->code ) {
   # Handle error codes here
    print ("There was a bind error\n");
      }

$mesg = $ldap->search( # perform a search
                        base   => "ldap base here",
                        filter => "ldap filter here",
                        attrs => ['ldap attributes here']
                      );
 
$mesg->code && die $mesg->error;

foreach $entry ($mesg->entries) {
        $entry->dump;
        } 

$mesg = $ldap->unbind;   # take down session

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