> Will this tell me how much memory is used at the point > of failure?
See code. > > Unfortunately, there is no /dev/random in HP-UX. But there is a /dev/zero use strict; $|++; my $mem; my $bigbuf; my $buf; open IN, '/dev/zero' or die "Can't open random device: $!"; while( $mem += read(IN, $buf, 1048576) ) { print "$mem\n"; $bigbuf .= $buf; } -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>