in reply to Optimizing Memory consumption
I agree with most of the earlier posts, that you may have a design issue. But, there's a nice, crude alternative which may be of interest: where I work, we use an ActiveState build of Perl on Solaris. I assume it's a 64-bit build, because we can and do run scripts with memory usage over 2 GB; the same scripts run out of memory on Linux.
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