Hi Uwe, I'm no sort expert but it looks like the sort program has a bug:
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=5044446 sort produces an unclear error message when input lines are too long. input lines longer than 8k can cause sort to stop and produce a message suggesting -S option could help when it can't. Maybe someone else can add a workaround... Cindy Uwe Dippel wrote: > Noticed this using gupdatedb from Blastwave. [Yes, I filed it there, but no > answer] > > # gupdatedb > sort: insufficient memory; use -S option to increase allocation > Broken Pipe > > Played a bit with it, but didn't go away. Searched Google, and this was > something way back in Solaris 10. > But nothing actual. > Therefore I made it fail here, in front of my eyes: > > # find . | wc -l > 372245 > # find . | sort | wc -l > sort: insufficient memory; use -S option to increase allocation > 0 > > # which sort > /usr/bin/sort > # uname -a > SunOS SolU 5.11 snv_96 i86pc i386 i86pc > # ls -l /usr/bin/sort > -r-xr-xr-x 96 root bin 8148 Aug 9 01:58 /usr/bin/sort > > What can I do? > > Uwe > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > sysadmin-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
