Re: memory exhausted

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

[mailing list address corrected ... won't people ever learn to read ?]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Vivian Wang wrote:

> I try to sort my 11 GB file, but I got message about memory exhausted.
> I used the command like this:
> sort -u file1 -o file2
> Is this correct?

Yes, sort only has a maximum of 3 GB of virtual address space so
it will never be able to load the whole 11 GB file into memory.

> What I should do?

You could either write your own sort program that doesn't need
to have the whole file loaded or you could use a 64 bit machine
with at least 11 GB of available virtual memory, probably the
double...

regards,

Rik
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