On 03/14/15 12:49, sort problem wrote: > Hello, > > ---------- > # uname -a > OpenBSD notebook.lan 5.6 GENERIC.MP#333 amd64 > # > # du -sh small/ > > > 663M small/ > # ls -lah small/*.txt | wc -l > > > 43 > # > # cd small > # ulimit -n > 10000000 > # sysctl | grep -i maxfiles > kern.maxfiles=1000000000 > # > # grep open /etc/login.conf > > > :openfiles-cur=100000:\ > :openfiles-cur=1280000:\ > :openfiles-cur=512:\ > # > # sort -u *.txt -o out > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > # > ---------- > > This is after a minute run.. The txt files have UTF-8 chars too. A line is > maximum a few ten chars long in the txt files. All the txt files have UNIX > eol's. There is enough storage, enough RAM, enough CPU. I'm even trying this > with root user. The txt files are about ~60 000 000 lines.. not a big > number... a reboot didn't help. > > > > Any ideas how can I use the "sort" command to actually sort? Please help! > > > > Thanks, > > btw, this happens on other UNIX OS too, lol... why do we have the sort > command if it doesn't work? >
Hi, have you tried the option '-H'? The manpage suggested this for files > 60MB. Regards, Andi
