Re^2: How would you use perl debugging tools to pinpoint the problem here?

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Well I'm on windows, and everything just gets slower and slower until it completely freezes up. ctrl-alt-delete kill to task manager and then kill process works to get things moving again.

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Re^3: How would you use perl debugging tools to pinpoint the problem here? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 10, 2005 at 16:17 UTC
It's not crashing at all. A hash with 10 million elements is huge! Allocating a hash of that size -- at least 100MB, I bet -- takes time, and if the OS starts using virtual memory, it'll take forever.	[reply]

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