Re: sort: memory exhausted with 50GB file

2008-01-25 Thread Leo Butler
I have pasted in the requested information below. Leo On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Bob Proulx wrote: < Leo Butler wrote: < > -16 -2 -14 -5 1 1 0 0.3080808080808057 0 0.1540404040404028 0.3904338415207971 < < That should be fine. < < > I have a dual processor machine, with

sort: memory exhausted with 50GB file

2008-01-25 Thread Leo Butler
o be independent of the parameter passed through the -S option. Is this an idiosyncratic problem? I have read backlogs of the list and people report sort-ing 100GB files. Do you have any ideas? Leo Butler ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bu

Re: sort: memory exhausted with 50GB file

2008-01-26 Thread Leo Butler
am attempting to sort the transformed file. This has shrunk the file from 50GB to 7GB, so I anticipate no problems. I will report back. --- Leo Butler. Details: --- In my original post I mentioned I did count the max line length: $ /usr/bin/wc -L /data/espace/k_400_a.out 107 Here is th

Re: sort: memory exhausted with 50GB file

2008-01-26 Thread Leo Butler
Thank you for your help. Leo Butler ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: sort: memory exhausted with 50GB file

2008-02-01 Thread Leo Butler
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Paul Eggert wrote: < Leo Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: < < > wc is counting with long ints, and the first line of this 50GB file is a string < > of \0 whose length appears to be negative when counted with long ints. (Details < > below