Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:41:23 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "van Osnabrugge, Sean" <svanosnabrugge@osler.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grep: memory exhausted Message-ID: <20061130044123.GA19761@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <7883F37393F1D44990888174C2E5E91222666A@TSV-EXCHANGE.ohhllp.com> References: <7883F37393F1D44990888174C2E5E91222666A@TSV-EXCHANGE.ohhllp.com>
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--TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 03:10:33PM -0500, van Osnabrugge, Sean wrote: > Hi there, >=20 > =20 >=20 > I am running a fresh install of FreeBSD-6.1-Stable as a guest OS in > VMWare 1.0.1 with 1 GB of RAM. >=20 > =20 >=20 > Whenever I try to grep a large text file (400 MB+), grep terminates with > "grep: memory exhausted" >=20 > =20 >=20 > I have tried piping grep (cat "file" | grep "search term") >=20 > I have tried it with -line-buffered >=20 > =20 >=20 > ulimit -a show: >=20 > core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited >=20 > data seg size (kbytes, -d) 524288 Try increasing this. I think grep mmaps the file, so the large file could be exceeding your limit. Kris --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFbmDzWry0BWjoQKURAq8kAJ4i6zNiXPiI/ILZuOSdWL1ATjaeNwCfbaQr roqJFwQNau2hGQfa5AD4b8g= =wVzX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/--
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