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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:23:59 -0700
From: "Ollie Wild" <aaw@google.com>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] no MAX_ARG_PAGES -v2
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On 6/13/07, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
> Above 5Mbytes, I started seeing problems.  The line/word/char
> counts from "wc" started being "0 0 0".  Not sure if this is
> a problem in "wc" dealing with a single line >5MBytes, or some
> other problem (possibly I was exceeding the per-process stack
> limit which is only 8MB on that machine).

Interesting.  If you're exceeding your stack ulimit, you should be
seeing either an "argument list too long" message or getting a
SIGSEGV.  Have you tried bypassing wc and piping the output straight
to a file?

Ollie