On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 03:10:33PM -0500, van Osnabrugge, Sean wrote: > Hi there, > > > > 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. > > > > Whenever I try to grep a large text file (400 MB+), grep terminates with > "grep: memory exhausted" > > > > I have tried piping grep (cat "file" | grep "search term") > > I have tried it with -line-buffered > > > > ulimit -a show: > > core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited > > 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
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