First up thanks a lot for the ideas! So there is no way around rewriting the code to overcome this out-of-memory error? I mean as a quick fix?

Not trying to be lazy; I ask as this is holding Production already - if I could do something to get this piece going in the interim, I could take time out to rewrite, test and promote the rewritten version.

Any ideas??

fdrread@laatdm62:/home/fdrread> ulimit -a
time(seconds)        unlimited
file(blocks)         unlimited
data(kbytes)         unlimited
stack(kbytes)        4194304
memory(kbytes)       unlimited
coredump(blocks)     unlimited
nofiles(descriptors) unlimited
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