You need to check if your perl is built with large file support. If you do a perl -V and look for the line that read something like:

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES 
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
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