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Next to the physical system limits, you may also bump into the user limits. It may be the cause, maybe not. See ulimit -a

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Re: Unexpected 'Out of Memory'
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jan 13, 2004 at 16:34 UTC
    Except for the fact that my ulimit is unlimited, that doesn't explain why there's no Out of Memory if $MAX is increased. In fact, the program shouldn't even use any large amount of memory - created strings are lexical, and not longer than $MAX characters long.

    Abigail

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