I am getting a crash, probably related to memory usage, while parsing a large (100MB) comma separated text file using Text::CSV_XS. Crash occurs on both Kubuntu (Plasma segfault) and Windows (process is killed). I am reading the CSV file in order to perform some basic funtions (min/max, distinct) on each column. The crash occurs using either CSV_XS or CSV_PP. Here is the test case, you will need to scare up a test.file which is CSV and very large: 
#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict;
use warnings;

use Text::CSV_PP;
use Text::CSV_XS;
use Text::CSV;

my @array;

my $csv = Text::CSV->new ({ binary => 1, 
                sep_char=>','}) or
     die "Cannot use CSV: ".Text::CSV->error_diag ();

 open my $FH2, "<:encoding(utf8)", "test.file" or die "$file: $!";

 while (my $row = $csv->getline ($FH2) ) {
       {push @array, $row;}
     }
 $csv->eof or $csv->error_diag ();
 close $FH2;

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When running the code, I see memory usage climb to near 100% (2GB installed) and then the crash occurs.

So my questions are: why is the crash occurring and how can I avoid it? I've read whatever I can find on the subject, and I can't find anyone else having the same problem. People report success reading files over 100GB, but I crash out around 100MB. Thanks in advance for any help, and apologies in advance for missing any obvious resources for help. I did search...

In reply to Text CSV_XS memory crash by glepore70

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