Bryan M. Kramer wrote:
> I am getting an "out of memory"" error message from Storable::thaw (Perl 
> version below).
> 
> Although the record is big (200 k bytes), from searching the web I 
> suspect that the problem might be with some bytes that Storable::freeze 
> stored. Is this in fact the case? If so, can someone supply me with the 
> code that could at a minimum check the bytes to predict if the problem 
> is going to occur, and better still, fix the problem so that the thaw 
> can proceed. I can't upgrade Perl for my users right away, and having 
> the program terminate with an out of memory error is clearly 
> unacceptable for the users.

200KB is chicken feed on today's machines.

I would find a 5.8 version and see if the results are the same.
If yes, then you need to post the code and maybe a link to some
actual test data (although 200KB wouldn't be all that big a post
to make for most people) that reproduces the problem.
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