grep: memory exhausted

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 03:10:33PM -0500, van Osnabrugge, Sean wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
>  
> 
> I am running a fresh install of FreeBSD-6.1-Stable as a guest OS in
> VMWare 1.0.1 with 1 GB of RAM.
> 
>  
> 
> Whenever I try to grep a large text file (400 MB+), grep terminates with
> "grep: memory exhausted"
> 
>  
> 
> I have tried piping grep (cat "file" | grep "search term")
> 
> I have tried it with -line-buffered
> 
>  
> 
> ulimit -a show:
> 
> core file size        (blocks, -c) unlimited
> 
> data seg size         (kbytes, -d) 524288

Try increasing this.  I think grep mmaps the file, so the large file
could be exceeding your limit.

Kris
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