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Old 05-09-2011
Out Of Memory in Perl

Hi ,
when one of the perl script is being executed i am getting the following
error as out of memory,
when i check memory utilisation it is showing as 60% .
cp utilisation as 11%.
swap is free for 19 gb.

can anyone guide me to sort the above isssue.i want to know the root cause.
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Old 05-09-2011
Show us the source.
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Old 05-09-2011
It's possible to run out of memory space in a process without running out of memory on the system, especially in 32-bit mode.

Also, what is your system?
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