Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 16:38:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird perl problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970504163815.3214E-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970504014424.21505B-100000@aak.anchorage.net>
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On Sun, 4 May 1997, Steve Howe wrote: > On Sun, 4 May 1997, Steve wrote: > > i noticed while opening a few Megs of text files with "joe" editor, > my terminal went completely nut, shell and everything, and i have > to exit to the login prompt to regain control. i'm not an expert > on BSD RAM usage, but i something goes nuts when it gets amxed out. > i think perl sucks in that file as one long string into memory. > i wonder if it would crash if you chopped the file in 2 or 4 ... The thing is, it load the data and does the math, and is done with the file. Its when it print out what it found is when it chokes - and at 8192 bytes.
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