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I have no idea since I can access the whole memory (all 50 GB)

How do you know you can access the whole of memory?

What happens if you run this code?: 

perl -e' $x = chr(0) x ( 1024**3 * 12 ) '

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That will attempt to allocate a single 12GB lump of memory. If it fails, then try adjusting the 12 to a lower value to discover how much memory Perl can actually allocate.

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Re^10: statistics of a large text
by perl_lover_always (Acolyte) on Feb 10, 2011 at 15:33 UTC
    it does not fail!
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