Hi there, we use the Storable module in a very basic way for exactly the primordial purpose it was written for. given a somewhat bigger data structure, let's say a 1.4GB large hash containing some strings as keys and some objects as values, when a simple store $self, $file; is issued ($self is reference to the hash), we see a doubled increase of memory usage. I.e. the process' vsize then being about 2.8GB. As you may imagine this is not funny. When retrieving the data, all behaves well and normal. Memory consumption is as expected. Is there any reason why store grabs that much memory? Looks like if a clone of the data structure would take place in memory. -- best regards, Dipl.-Inf. Richard Jelinek - The PetaMem Group - Prague/Nuremberg - www.petamem.com - -= 3394928 Mind Units =-Thread Next