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From: harless@sdd.hp.com (Mike Harless)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: malloc/free problem with perl3.0 at patchlevel 37?
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Date: 3 Nov 90 00:13:16 GMT
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I'm seeing a problem with perl3.0 at patchlevel 37 on HP-UX 7.0 when I try 
to suck up an entire file into an array variable.  While running monitor 
to see what was happening, the number of I/O bytes look normal, but the 
data space for the process goes out of sight.  For a 750k file, perl tries 
to malloc over 50MB.  This kind of puts a cramp on the files I can read in 
and process! :-)  I can reproduce this with perl using the system's malloc or 
the one with perl.  I don't know exactly when this broke as the only old 
copy of perl that I've got around is patchlevel 12, and it works fine there.

Any ideas of what the problem might be?


				...Mike