Er, what's vague about it? :-) Am I missing something?

Obviously I'd like to use less memory, but I cant in the short term. Is the group wisdom to NEVER let your perl program use more memory than you have physical memory? Even so - I'd like to understand what is happening to the process right now. > What kind of processing are you doing?

Well, I am processing the results of several very large database queries. These need to go in various very large hashes. I've been looking at out of memory caches but the network IO will slow things down even more.

I would like to break up the task into smaller chunks if I could but there doesnt seem to be an easy way of doing that.

In reply to Re^2: perl using more Memory Than I have Got by alexmc
in thread perl using more Memory Than I have Got by alexmc

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