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Subject: OOM errors for large files
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 17:43:55 -0700
To: bug-file-tail-dir [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Garth Webb <garth [...] wikia-inc.com>
File::Tail::Dir does this on line 662 in function _process_event: if (my @lines = readline($fh)) { If the file is larger than the available memory, this line will cause the script using File::Tail::Dir to be killed. This makes processing large log files with this module impossible. Garth
Has been addressed in version 0.12.