the classic out of memory during large request

[Tim]

I'm getting errors like this

Out of memory during "large" request for 528384 bytes, total sbrk() is
16302080 bytes at ... line 176.

when the server is busy. This is for a background perl script. What
I would like to do is to check to see if memory for the request is
available before running the offending the command, and just pause
everything until memory is available. Is that possible?

Thanks all,
Tim

 

[Ben Morrow]

Quoth (e-mail address removed) (Tim):

I'm getting errors like this

Out of memory during "large" request for 528384 bytes, total sbrk() is
16302080 bytes at ... line 176.

when the server is busy. This is for a background perl script. What
I would like to do is to check to see if memory for the request is
available before running the offending the command, and just pause
everything until memory is available. Is that possible?

You could try investigating $^M...

Ben