Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:30:18 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "van Osnabrugge, Sean" <svanosnabrugge@osler.com> Subject: Re: grep: memory exhausted Message-ID: <20061130063018.GA24865@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20061130044123.GA19761@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <7883F37393F1D44990888174C2E5E91222666A@TSV-EXCHANGE.ohhllp.com> <20061130044123.GA19761@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 11:41:23PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Try increasing this. I think grep mmaps the file, so the large file > could be exceeding your limit. According to the manpage, grep uses read(2) unless you specify --mmap which then (obviously) uses mmap(2). -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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