Out Of Memory

[nitindn]

Hi,
I am running a perl script to generate some XML file . During the execution of the script , I am using some large arrays. But I am getting an Error "Out Of Memory" .
How can I come to know as to which statement in the script caused this error.
I am using perl 5.005 on windows 2000 professional...
Please respond immediately

Regards
Nitin Nair

 

[PaulTEG]

Out of memory is exactly what it says - get more RAM

To see where in the execution, you can either log your progress to a file or STDOUT.

The statement which causes the error is not likely to be the problem but the loop structure that it resides in

HTH
Paul

 

[missbarbell]

This might not be a problem of RAM, but more a case your code is hogging too much memory. Perl is reknowned for being a memory hog, as it doesn't immediately release unlinked memory back to the heap, just in case it needs it again.

Take a look at Devel:Prof [1] and Devel::LeakTrace [2], which might help you identify the areas in the code which are causing bottlenecks and/or are resource hungry.

[1]

http://search.cpan.org/author/JHI/perl-5.8.0/ext/Devel/DProf/DProf.pm

[2]

http://search.cpan.org/author/RCLAMP/Devel-LeakTrace-0.02/LeakTrace.pm

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