Hey all,

Thanks, the io.copy resolved the issue.

Thanks & Regards
Mukund



On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 2:51 AM, Dave Cheney <d...@cheney.net> wrote:

> Or use https://godoc.org/io/ioutil#ReadFile
>
> By really you don't need to buffer all the data in memory, io.Copy will do
> that for you
>
> in, err := os.Open(input)
> check(err)
> defer in.Close()
> out, err := os.Create(output)
> gz := gzip.New.Writer(out)
> _, err = io.Copy(gz, in)
> check(err)
> err = gz.Close()
> check(err)
> err = out.Close()
> check(err)
>
>
> On Thursday, 16 February 2017 06:05:51 UTC+11, howar...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> While it is not clear from the Buffer documentation, the Reader
>> *interface* documentation (which Buffer.Read implements implicitly) does
>> state "up to len(p) bytes." You are ignoring how many bytes it read and
>> assuming that the one read is reading the whole file. I am not sure that
>> this is guaranteed with Buffer.Read.
>>
>> I would suggest you try to adhere to the Reader interface's documented
>> behavior, and continue to call Read until you get EOF, and process the n
>> returned bytes each time. Doing this would also make it easier to then move
>> a step further and drop your buffer size to something sensible, instead of
>> attempting to read the entire 2.5G file into memory before compressing.
>>
>> Howard
>>
>

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