From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 05:51:21 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Tell how to possibly dodge 'Out of memory' errors.
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Tell how to possibly dodge 'Out of memory' errors.

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diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index cb314e9..daa0837 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -2584,6 +2584,12 @@ in the current lexical scope.
 remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the request.  Perl has
 no option but to exit immediately.
 
+At least in Unix you may be able to get past this by increasing your
+process datasize limits: in csh/tcsh use C<limit> and
+C<limit datasize n> (where C<n> is the number of kilobytes) to check
+the current limits and change them, and in ksh/bash/zsh use C<ulimit -a>
+and C<ulimit -d n>, respectively.
+
 =item Out of memory during "large" request for %s
 
 (F) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was insufficient