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To: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au>
Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: gzip and large files
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Date: 29 Aug 2002 10:04:35 -0400
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Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au> writes:

> On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> > Maybe your disk is full? :)
> 
> Well I certainly don't get any disk full errors and df says I have a bit
> of space left also. I'm not confident I wont be out of disk space if the
> decompressions works but I don't think that is the problem I'm hitting now
> as even zcat stops at 300 or so MB.

It's running out of virtual memory to store the pipelines?


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