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Memory limitation of 'find'
From: |
P Fudd |
Subject: |
Memory limitation of 'find' |
Date: |
Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:56:48 -0700 |
Hello!
Thanks for writing find, I use it daily.
Recently, I've had to use find on unusual filesystems. Specifically,
filesystems containing directories with 35,000 files in them, with
each filename being 11 characters long.
Example:
$ ls -f chromat_dir | wc -l
35234
$ mkdir /tmp/foo; cp chromat_dir/* /tmp/foo
/bin/cp: Argument list too long.
$ find chromat_dir > /dev/null
find: chromat_dir: Cannot allocate memory
$
Is there a way to remove the memory limitation? The computer has 16
gigs of ram; allocating 387k shouldn't cause it to choke like this.
Environment: MacOSX 10.6.4, Fink 0.29.13, findutils 4.2.20-7.
Thanks!
- Memory limitation of 'find',
P Fudd <=