I am reading in portions of large files into string variables. The number of and size of the files vary by month. Right now I'm working with nearly 70,000 files, the largest of which is 7 GB. Not all files are processed, but all are scanned line by line for keywords. If a keyword is found, the entire file is read in for section by section processing.

Chris Wagner wrote:
What exactly is using up all the memory?  Are u reading in large variables,
using too many file handles...  we need more information.

At 11:40 AM 9/26/05 -0400, Craig Cardimon wrote:

I'm working with large numbers of files that can vary in size up to 4 GB and more. Every time I try tackling them straight on I run out of virtual memory. The files are sequentially numbered somewhat like SS


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