On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> At least we figured that perl crashes when it uses more than 384 MB RAM,
> similar C programs don't crash.
The fact that perl crashes is, IMO, a perl bug, which still needs to be
fixed. Perl shouldn't *crash* (i.e., segfault). It could report an out
of memory error and die gracefully, though.
> This could be fixed with setting the heap size in te registry to a
> suitable maximum.
No, it could be *worked around* by setting the heap size in the registry
to a suitable maximum.
Igor
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