Perl script accessing small dbm file runs "out of memory"! on OSF1

From: Siobhan O'Brien <Siobhan.OBrien_at_cs.tcd.ie>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 19:45:47 +0100

I'm having problems with perl version 4.036 on a Dec Alpha OSF1 V3.2 with
112MB memory. I maintain a few small databases which are implemented as
dbm files accessed as assocoative arrays from within perl scripts.
Some of these scripts reading a record in a small dbm file complain
about "Out of memory". Others which attempts to read the whole database
give a segmentation fault. These scripts work perfectly accessing the same
database on other platforms - Ultrix 4.4, SunOS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.x.

(BTW I've constrcucted a version of perl on all platforms that uses the BSD
db library instead of the usual dbm/ndbm library so that the db routines
are byte order independent)

It's not possible for me to use Perl5 at the time.

I would appreciate any help that you can give me. Thanks very much.

Siobhan

---------------------------------------------------------------
Siobhan O'Brien email: siobhan.obrien_at_cs.tcd.ie
Computer Science Department phone: +353 1 608 1718
Trinity College fax: +353 1 677 2204
Dublin 2, Ireland
---------------------------------------------------------------
Received on Thu Sep 14 1995 - 21:14:50 NZST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed Nov 08 2023 - 11:53:45 NZDT