Re: grep: memory exhausted

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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