From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 25 4:29:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (discworld.nanolink.com [217.75.135.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C1D137B407 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 04:29:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@ringlet.net) Received: (qmail 8465 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Aug 2001 11:27:53 -0000 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:27:53 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Rob Cc: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: running diff on huge files Message-ID: <20010825142753.F487@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Rob , "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" References: <3B86FE12.FFF46FB0@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B86FE12.FFF46FB0@home.com>; from europax@home.com on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 06:23:31PM -0700 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 On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 06:23:31PM -0700, 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. Have you tried the --speed-large-files diff(1) option? G'luck, Peter -- I am not the subject of this sentence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message