grep: memory exhauted

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

grep: memory exhausted

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