Dennis, thanks for your helpful reply. :)
On 28/03/2008, at 7:55 AM, Dennis wrote:
On Mar 27, 2008, at 4:27 AM, Clytie Siddall wrote:
I don't know if I've hit a memory ceiling with BBEdit, or whether
it should be able to handle very large text files.
From the BBEdit FAQ:
Ouch. I should have read that. Sorry. Too much fog in my brain
nowadays. :(
BBEdit and TextWrangler represent open documents as Unicode, which
uses two bytes for each character. Combined with an internal Mac OS
X limitation, this means that you can open files up to 384 megabytes
in size (402,653,184 characters).
Even my compendium mightn't get that far. I do like a challenge. :D
I was editing my gettext Compendium today. A Compendium is a list
of all the unique strings you have translated. This file is over 30
MB in size.
Although I was only selecting, deleting and adding small amounts of
text in this file, I experienced increasingly long save times, and
some of my simple operations also had a spinning beachball.
I've been doing some work today on a 352 MB file (over 5.6 million
lines and 369 million characters) and haven't seen any problems. The
file is slower to open and save, and some operations take a bit
longer, but for the most part BBEdit has been very responsive. In
fact, for most operations I've been using (column selections, Prefix/
Suffix Lines, Sort Lines, Quick Search, Copy/Paste, and lots of
scrolling) I can't even tell I'm working on an exceptionally large
file. Kudos to Bare Bones for creating such a reliable text editing
tool.
So I don't know what might be the cause of the problems you're
seeing, but I don't think it's a BBEdit file size limit. Does the
problem persist through a reboot of your machine?
Yes, I said that in the original message. I had the problem, but
noticed (Software Update) that I had a system update to install, so
installed it via reboot. I continued to have the same problem.
Does anyone here understand what BBEdit is reporting in the Console?
Here's the most recent instance:
___
27/03/08 9:49:01 PM [0x0-0xa10a1].com.barebones.bbedit[2029]
BBEdit(2029,0xa04b7fa0) malloc: *** mmap(size=36990976) failed (error
code=12)
27/03/08 9:49:01 PM [0x0-0xa10a1].com.barebones.bbedit[2029] ***
error: can't allocate region
27/03/08 9:49:01 PM [0x0-0xa10a1].com.barebones.bbedit[2029] *** set a
breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
___
It looks like memory allocation to me, but that's all I can work out.
Rebooting BBEdit fixes the problem for a while.
from Clytie
Vietnamese Free Software Translation Team
http://vnoss.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=projects:l10n
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