note nowise <p> i donot know how the system or perl is giving the error. </p> <p> can you please provide some more details on it. </p> <p> i had read somewhere that perl should be compiled with the "usemymalloc=y" compiler flag to release the memory. </p> <p> when i ran the [ perl -V ] on the commandline i could see this flag set to "y". </p> <p> Also the only contributing factor to increase in the process memory , seems to be because of hash. </p> <p> please see below the memory increase in the process ,it remain constant to some point , and then gaian start increasing : </p> <p> Record counter => [20] Process Status:6.328125MB Record counter => [30] Process Status:6.4296875MB Record counter => [40] Process Status:6.4375MB Record counter => [50] Process Status:6.4375MB Record counter => [60] Process Status:6.4453125MB Record counter => [70] Process Status:6.4453125MB Record counter => [80] Process Status:6.4453125MB Record counter => [90] Process Status:6.453125MB Record counter => [100] Process Status:6.453125MB Record counter => [110] Process Status:6.453125MB Record counter => [120] Process Status:6.453125MB Record counter => [130] Process Status:6.4609375MB </p> 1006695 1007095