seems like a bit out of topic, but... could be fun :)

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 15:52:21 -0800
Jacob Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm new to perl but I've been working on a script that will parse a large
> amount of text and while it's going through it, it will store data in a few
> different hashes I have (a one dimensional hash, and two-two dimensional
> hashes).  Once I read in all the data, I then sort the hashes and output all
> of this to a set of log files.
> 
> 
> Here's the main chunk of my code that start the text coming in...
>     # Build up the command string appropriately, depending on what options
>     # have been set.
>     my $command =
>       ($rlog_module ne "") ? "cvs -n -d $cvsdir rlog $rlog_module" : "cvs
> log";
>     print "Executing \"$command\"\n" if $debug;
> 
>     open (CVSLOG, "$command |") || die "Couldn't execute \"$command\"";
>     while (<CVSLOG>)
>     {
>     ....
>     ....

what are you doing in here?

>     }
> 
> If you can't see what I'm doing, I'm parsing the return of cvs rlog, I'd
> like to run this on the root of our CVS repository and extract statistics
> from that, however, when I run this, I get an "Out Of Memory" error as I'm
> parsing the text.  Is this because I'm using hashes or because there is just
> a lot of text for cvs rlog on the root?  I get the "Out Of Memory" error
> after it runs for like 30 minutes or so and if I watch the process it
> usually gives me that error once it is using about 20 MB of memory.

what is the size of the output text out from the $command?

> 
> I'm new so I don't really know what this could be or where to look for help,
> thanks in advance,
> 
> Jacob
> 


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