This looks like a classic case of memory leaks or your
program using an algorithm that takes up a lot of memory as
it processes the file. The symptoms you describe are that of
excessive swapping to/from virtual memory. What does the
memory usage show for your system and your perl program?
Bye,
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> i have the following problem...
>
> i have written a perl script. which handles a file
> with the size of 17Mb. it takes a small piece of
> information from that does some processing and writes
> in different file. this goes on till all the stuff in
> the main file is procssed.
>
> this script runs very fast for first 4 to 5 hrs. after
> that it became very very slow. when i test top command
> output.... it says..
> only 1-3 % of memmory is being used. 5% of CPU is
> being used.
>
> the machine became so slow that i cant even open
> another terminal....even to run top command i have to
> slogin from another pc clone. the script is attached
> with this mail.
>
> this can be restored only after i restart my computer.
> (system is relatively slow even after killing the perl
> program). any help will be appriciated.
> many thanx in advance
> gowtham
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