Re^2: Debian Lenny Out of Memory errors.

No doesn't die immediately. And it will throw out of memory regardless of the module I try to load. For example, doing cpan -i Lchown and I get this:

CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18)
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.008)
............................................................................DONE
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
  Database was generated on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:26:54 GMT
CPAN: HTTP::Date loaded ok (v5.810)
..............
  New CPAN.pm version (v1.9301) available.
  Currently running version is v1.9205
  You might want to try
    install CPAN
    reload cpan
  to both upgrade CPAN.pm and run the new version without leaving
  the current session.

CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9711)

..............................................................DONE
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v5.813)

I would like to connect to one of the following sites to get 'modules/03modlist.data.gz':

 http://www.perl.org/CPAN/
 ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/

Is it OK to try to connect to the Internet? yes
Fetching with LWP:
  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
LWP failed with code500 messageCan't connect to www.perl.org:80 (connect: timeout)

Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.tmp3185" to get
    http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
--2009-01-14 17:30:22--  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Resolving proxy.edm-inc.com... 10.10.1.1
Connecting to proxy.edm-inc.com|10.10.1.1|:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.cpan.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz following
--2009-01-14 17:30:27--  http://www.cpan.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Connecting to proxy.edm-inc.com|10.10.1.1|:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 156955 (153K) text/plain
Saving to: `/root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.tmp3185'

100%======================================================================> 156,955     --.-K/s   in 0.01s

2009-01-14 17:30:27 (13.2 MB/s) - `/root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.tmp3185' saved 156955/156955

Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Out of memory!

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Re^3: Debian Lenny Out of Memory errors. by moritz (Cardinal) on Jan 15, 2009 at 09:13 UTC
Would you care to answer my other questions as well? So far I only see that it needs more memory than it has, but without seeing any numbers, it might use an entirely reasonable amount of memory, and your limits are just too strict. (Note the ulimit's `-d` is not the only possible memory restriction). Try running it without a memory limit, and see how much it uses at most.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Debian Lenny Out of Memory errors. by kc0dxf (Initiate) on Jan 15, 2009 at 17:22 UTC
Ok, I tried setting ulimit to unlimited on the stack size and virtual mem as well as data and it appears to work. I guess perl 5.10 takes a lot more memory?	[reply]
Re^5: Debian Lenny Out of Memory errors. by matze77 (Friar) on Jan 19, 2009 at 11:02 UTC
Hmm, using Debian. I dunno if this is a Debian issue since: i got Padre from cpan with Perl 5.10 (iirc) and Kernel 2.6.26 (Lenny too, with some unstable packages) I got 4GB physical mem (limited to 3.x GB) on my notebook (32-Bit-Kernel) is it 64Bit or 32-Bit? dont know if this is relevant... Your Kernel and Perl is from Debian Sources? hth MH	[reply]