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?
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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?