vi: Tmp file too large - ULIMIT?
Randall J. Davis
rjd at dell.dell.com
Sat Feb 10 06:44:34 AEST 1990
In article <131448 at sun.Eng.Sun.COM> plocher at sun.UUCP (John Plocher) writes:
|have fixed size tables (for line pointers...). This effectively
|limits you to "small" files (less than some number of lines) In the
|Microport Vr3 386 case I was hitting the limit at less than 300k for
|normal C source files.
Best I can remember from looking at the source a while back, it is limited
by number of characters in the swapping version, not number of lines. The limit
is normally 256k bytes. It has a predefined #define that you can employ to
bump it up to double that value at compile time.
Randy Davis UUCP: dell.dell.com!rjd
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