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Hi all.  I'm running threaded Perl 5.8.7, compiled
with ithreads, on FreeBSD 5.4 STABLE with 1.5GB RAM. 
Perl is now running out of memory as I'm getting Seg
Faults/Core dumps.  (I'm creating a max of 15 threads
all parsing different HTML.  There appears to only be
124MB of free physical memory remaining--3 GB of swap
space is available/unused.)

FYI, it was compiled using FreeBSD malloc:

/home/charles> perl -V:usemymalloc
usemymalloc='n';

It seems that the OS is not alloting swap space to
this Perl job.  Is there a quick suggestion as to how
to tell it to use swap space and/or should I increase
kernel memory during boot?  Any general suggestions?


Thanks,
Charles