Re: sort 5.93 on Fedora Core 5 exits if intermediate file reaches 2 GB

[Keith R Stanley]

Bob and Tim,

Sorry this waited so long, but I had to work-around the issue and didn't get
back to checking it out.
I checked all the ulimit suggestions and all said unlimited. As I burn DVD iso's
from this machine, I regularly generate > 2GB files with no difficulty.

I copied a version of sort from Fedora Core 4 (sort version 5.2.1) and it runs
fine and it generated a 5.6 GB intermediate file with no problems.

Let me know if there is any other information I can provide or if I should set
up to get the source so I can debug it directly.
I just downloaded FC5 ISO images and installed it without doing any 
compilations.

Thanks,

Keith Stanley



On 4/12/2006 9:57 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Tim Waugh wrote:
> 
>>Another remote possibility is that a ulimit came into play, of
>>course.
> 
> 
> I don't think it is so remote of a possibility.  I have definitely
> seen ulimit be unintentionally set forcing this behavior.  I think you
> made an excellent suggestion!
> 
> Keith Stanley wrote:
> 
>>Under Fedora Core 5 (and probably other versions), the program sort
>>(version 5.93) exits (without cleaning up temporary files) in any of the
>>temporary files reach the size of 2 GB.
> 
> 
> What does ulimit say?
> 
>   ulimit
> 
> If it does not say "unlimited" then try setting it to unlimited and
> trying again.
> 
>   ulimit unlimited
> 
> You probably should check both the soft and hard limits.
> 
>   ulimit -Sf
>   ulimit -Hf
> 
> Bob


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