Are you using a regular expression? Could you show it to us, and a couple of representative lines from that log? Regexes can run away with time and memory. (Hard to believe they could eat up that much, though.)
It sounds like a bug. See the standard message the list appends to all messages (like this one) directing bug reports to [email protected]. On 22 Apr 2014, at 8:29 PM, Darren Lau <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to delete lines from a server log using the "Process Lines > Containing.." operation and I am consistently getting an OOM error message > which says "There is insufficient memory to complete this operation (MacOS > Error code: -108)" > > I am running on Mavericks with 16GB memory, out of which there is currently > 6.5GB free memory. > > The operation finds 166,649 lines out of 1,225,408 lines but is unable to > delete, move to another file, etc. BBEdit is a 32-bit application, so 16 GiB of memory doesn't change the fact that it can't request more than 4 GiB of it. Depending on the breaks, my back-of-the-envelope arithmetic suggests that your operation might take up 1/5 of the available address space, though 1/8 is more likely. So I'd think what you want to do wouldn't be much of a danger for memory, but it's enough pressure that if I were responsible for the app, I'd begin to worry. -- F -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
