No doesn't die immediately. And it will throw out of memory regardless of the module I try to load. For example, doing cpan -i Lchown and I get this: 
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18)
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.008)
............................................................................DONE
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
  Database was generated on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:26:54 GMT
CPAN: HTTP::Date loaded ok (v5.810)
..............
  New CPAN.pm version (v1.9301) available.
  Currently running version is v1.9205
  You might want to try
    install CPAN
    reload cpan
  to both upgrade CPAN.pm and run the new version without leaving
  the current session.

CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9711)

..............................................................DONE
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v5.813)

I would like to connect to one of the following sites to get 'modules/03modlist.data.gz':

 http://www.perl.org/CPAN/
 ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/

Is it OK to try to connect to the Internet? yes
Fetching with LWP:
  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
LWP failed with code500 messageCan't connect to www.perl.org:80 (connect: timeout)

Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.tmp3185" to get
    http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
--2009-01-14 17:30:22--  http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Resolving proxy.edm-inc.com... 10.10.1.1
Connecting to proxy.edm-inc.com|10.10.1.1|:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.cpan.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz following
--2009-01-14 17:30:27--  http://www.cpan.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Connecting to proxy.edm-inc.com|10.10.1.1|:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 156955 (153K) text/plain
Saving to: `/root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.tmp3185'

100%======================================================================> 156,955     --.-K/s   in 0.01s

2009-01-14 17:30:27 (13.2 MB/s) - `/root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.tmp3185' saved 156955/156955

Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Out of memory!

In reply to Re^2: Debian Lenny Out of Memory errors. by kc0dxf
in thread Debian Lenny Out of Memory errors. by kc0dxf

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