From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.33.17]:54306 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751446AbXFNGYK (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:24:10 -0400 Received: from spaceape12.eur.corp.google.com (spaceape12.eur.corp.google.com [172.28.16.146]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id l5E6O2JZ023216 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:24:02 +0100 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (pyhf31.prod.google.com [10.34.233.31]) by spaceape12.eur.corp.google.com with ESMTP id l5E6O0mj030099 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:24:00 +0100 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f31so836321pyh for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <65dd6fd50706132323i9c760f4m6e23687914d0c46e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:23:59 -0700 From: "Ollie Wild" Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] no MAX_ARG_PAGES -v2 In-Reply-To: <617E1C2C70743745A92448908E030B2A01AF860A@scsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070613100334.635756997@chello.nl> <617E1C2C70743745A92448908E030B2A01AF860A@scsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen List-ID: On 6/13/07, Luck, Tony 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