I do not see a way to make it much faster, but still: do not compute the division several times. Also, if you comment the defined $a and defined $w and part in my code, the sub will run about 5% faster, but you should be sure your input does not contain any invalid lines. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use Benchmark 'cmpthese';

sub arivu {
    my $input = shift;
    open my $FH, '<', $input or die;
    my $minimumAmount = 1e12;
    my ($amount, $weight);
    while (<$FH>) {
        if (/(\d+) (\d+)/) {
            if ($minimumAmount > ($1/$2)) {
                $minimumAmount = $1 / $2;
                $amount = $1;
                $weight = $2;
            }
        }
    }
    close $FH;
    return "$amount\t$weight\n";
} # arivu

sub choroba {
    my $input = shift;
    open my $FH, '<', $input or die;
    my $minimumAmount = 1e12;
    my ($amount, $weight);
    while (<$FH>) {
        my ($a, $w) = split;
        if (defined $a and defined $w and
            (my $ratio = $a / $w) < $minimumAmount) {
            $minimumAmount = $ratio;
            $amount = $a;
            $weight = $w;
        }
    }
    close $FH;
    return "$amount\t$weight\n";
} # choroba

my $input;
$input .= (join ' ', map int(1 + rand 1000), 1 .. 2) . "\n" for 1 .. 1
+000;

cmpthese(-1, {arivu => sub {arivu \$input},
              choroba => sub {choroba \$input},
             });

print arivu \$input;
print choroba \$input;
__END__

Output:

         Rate   arivu choroba
arivu   466/s      --    -17%
choroba 565/s     21%      --
8       953
8       953

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