I thought I'd play around with Mac::Glue, so I fired up the CPAN shell to install it. The installation went, in part, like this: [...] END failed--call queue aborted, <DATA> line 1. *** malloc: vm_allocate(size=268435456) failed (error code=3) *** malloc[10104]: error: Can't allocate region Out of memory! [...]
Kind of an odd-ball question, but you aren't short of disk space are you? what's the output of df?