perl script failed at different stages

Adam Vandemore amvandemore at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 20:58:27 UTC 2009


Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:
> Hi,
>    I guess this is not a REAL freebsd problem, but I am running a perl
> script on freebsd7.0/perl 5.10 system. This script failed with
> "segmentation fault" at different stages with different input files,
> and sometimes the script actually finishes and gives the reasonable
> output. So does this mean the script is fine, but others are at fault?
> e.g. memory.. or..??  any advice is welcome.
>   
If you suspect bad memory, best to replace w/ known good or test 
somewhere that is not a concern.  Bad hardware and memory especially can 
cause many many different unexpected symptoms, and can be tricky to run 
down.

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Adam Vandemore
Systems Administrator
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