RE: ci failed for large files (>2GB) - diff: memory exhausted

[chris . penny]

Hi,

There was a problem on our development
machine yesterday which recursively processed subdirectories trying to
erroneously check in thousands of  items into
RCS which did not need to be checked
in.

Regards

Chris Penny 
Masus
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From:	"Peram, Sudhakara" <address@hidden>
To:	"Hugh Sasse" <address@hidden>
Cc:	address@hidden
Date:	14/01/2011 09:25
Subject:	RE: ci failed for large files (>2GB) - diff: memory exhausted
Sent by:	address@hidden

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Hi Hugh

I have re-compiled diff program with large file support and it is also
64-bit compilation. Here one more thing diff command executed
successfully when I ran it  manually on the same set of files which
were
used for ci command.

Note: These files are binary in nature, not the text files.

Thanks for your help!


--Sudhakar

-----Original Message-----
From: Hugh Sasse [mailto:address@hidden]
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 1:06 PM
To: Peram, Sudhakara
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: ci failed for large files (>2GB) - diff: memory exhausted

Just wondering if you compiled the diff program with large file support?

        Hugh

On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Peram, Sudhakara wrote:

> Hi All
> 
>  
> 
> I have compiled RCS with 64-bit to support large files (> 2GB)
and it
is
> working fine for initial revision. But from second revision onwards
it
> is failing if the file size >= 1.1 GB and I am getting the following
> error. This error is more related to diff utility which is used by
ci
> command while check-in the file into RCS.
> 
>  
> 
> Error Message:
> 
> diff: memory exhausted
> 
>  
> 
> I did google for this error and I came to know that there some other
> utilities to get rid of this error, but here I am not issuing diff
> command manually (i.e., diff command is issued by ci command
internally)
> so I can't use the other available utilities/options. Is there anyway
> get rid of this error like suppressing diff command while check-in
or
> compiling diff utility with large file support?
> 
>  
> 
> My server architecture is : SunOS hostname 5.9 Generic_122300-47 sun4u
> sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help!
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Regards
> 
> Sudhakar
> 
>  
> 
> 



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