Hi,

That's definitely pretty vague. How much memory perl uses varies a great deal (like any other language) depending on what you do with it, what platform you're running it on, and what version of perl and any supporting libraries (os libs for example).

I don't think the problem is with perl itself, though I could be wrong. Probably the over zealous memory consumption is how you are accessing the data files. Are you reading the file entirely into memory or are you accessing it piecemeal?

Can you provide some example code of how you're accessing the file?