Possible memory leak?... help

Hi All,

This is my first post here, after searching on google...

1) hoping to get some help with this perl error that I get when I run my code in terminal on a MacPro. I have Active perl installed on it and not sure if its a perl code error or something with Mac
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perl(12096) malloc: *** mmap(size=16777216) failed (error code=12)
*** error: can't allocate region
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Out of memory!
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2) Another problem I see is that the MacPro has 16 GB of memory available - but somehow the terminal crashes after 4GB of virtual memory is reached. I am not able to use all the 16GB memory or the 16 cores on this machine. Do I have to modify memory allocation or something to allow terminal to have access to more RAM...?

Thanks for your help.

Moved to a more appropriate forum.

I don't know much about Perl (I find the code ugly - *cue perl lovers*) so I'll leave this up to the more experienced members here. It might help though if you post the code so people can take a look at it.

Just one suggestion, to get the ball rolling if you will - have you tried running this with the system Perl?

Thanks Vansmith - I will try running the code with system perl and will update. Perl works for my sequence data....

However, I still dont get the part where the virtual memory is being restricted to 4Gb. Would that be a perl problem or Mac machine?