On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 08:49 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:22:39PM +0000, Sam Morris wrote: > >Package: coreutils > >Version: 5.97-5.3 > >Severity: normal > > > >I am trying to use sort to sort a 812 MB file: > > > >mmap2(NULL, 4118106112, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, > >0) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) > >--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- > > > >I guess sort ignores the failure of the mmap system call. Here's a stack > >trace: > > What happens if you use the -S option to sort? (I actually don't think > it will matter, but give it a shot.)
Indeed, it doesn't make a difference. I don't think so much that it is the length of the file that's the issue--but the length of the longest line (~600 MB or something ridiculous). > > Mike Stone > -- Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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