How large are your text files? Perl data structures are often 5x to 10+x the size of the file on disk.
If you're processing a 2GB or 3GB file, you may hit swap when processing the file in memory. You may want to look into tieing the file to a variable and processing the file line by line. On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Subrahmanyam Vadlamani wrote: > Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:36:19 -0700 (PDT) > From: Subrahmanyam Vadlamani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: perl-unix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > perl-win32 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Perl-unix-users] Thoritical limits on perl processes > > Hi: > > Suppose I want to read in large text files and want to > do something with them. Are there any theoritical > limits on the process size of a perl script? > > My scripts are going to be running on an AIX 5.1 > machine with quite a bit of RAM (about 8 GB RAM). I > will be using perl 5.6.0. > > thanks for the information. > > Satish > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Unix-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > _______________________________________________ Perl-Unix-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
