Subject: Re: "diff" loses on large files?
To: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/12/2001 12:30:58
> cpu0: AMD Athlon Model 4 (Thunderbird) (686-class), 1100.12 MHz
> total memory = 511 MB
> avail memory = 468 MB
> using 6574 buffers containing 26296 KB of memory
>
> $ ll *odx
> 3065307 -rw-r--r-- 1 mac user 661,969,123 Jul 11 21:45 bad.odx
> 3065315 -rw-r--r-- 1 mac user 661,969,123 Jul 11 21:45 ok.odx
>
> $ diff -H *odx
> diff: memory exhausted
ulimit -m / ulimit -d should do