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Re: "du -b --files0-from=-" running out of memory
- From: Jim Meyering <jim at meyering dot net>
- To: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com, bug-coreutils <bug-coreutils at gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:25:38 +0100
- Subject: Re: "du -b --files0-from=-" running out of memory
- References: <nacii4p76633jbufvfoj4qjesrph05rjga@4ax.com> <49296551.4010801@byu.net>
Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> wrote:
> [adding the upstream coreutils list]
> According to Barry Kelly on 11/23/2008 6:24 AM:
>> I have a problem with du running out of memory.
>>
>> I'm feeding it a list of null-separated file names via standard input,
>> to a command-line that looks like:
>>
>> du -b --files0-from=-
Thank you for the report.
(thanks, Erik for the Cc)
du's --files0-from option reads the entire list of
file names into memory before processing the first name.
That bug should be fixed very quickly ;-)
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