> I needed to edit/look through a cca 7 GB log (text) file. > Now I use p9p. > Acme failed with a segmentation fault, was killed. > Sam did not seg-faulted, but didn't work either. > I finally used ed/sed. > > So does acme/sam need to load the whole file into memory?
neither loads the file into memory. sam uses 32-bit file offsets in the wire protocol that connects the gui with the back end. acme probably uses 32-bit file offsets too. i suspect the crash you saw was due to a math error on wraparound. Russ
