From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 24 19:54:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from femail46.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail46.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69C6E37B407 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:54:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by femail46.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010825025428.INOY29437.femail46.sdc1.sfba.home.com@math.missouri.edu>; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:54:28 -0700 Message-ID: <3B871363.69A7B024@math.missouri.edu> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 21:54:27 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Cc: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: running diff on huge files References: <3B86FE12.FFF46FB0@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rob wrote: > > I am trying to run diff on two huge files (220M) and I run out of swap > space. Is there another alternative? I have a Python script that does > something similar, but works on huge files, but it is much slower than > diff. Thanks, Rob. > When I tried something like this, I froze the whole computer. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message