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Re: Processing July




More info please...  How big is the file?  How much memory do you have?

Have you done <man sort>?  You can specify temporary directory (-T) and
memory buffer size (-S).

Luck,
rob

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 18:04:44 -0500
"Thomas Droege" <tdroege2@earthlink.net> said something like:

> The linux sort program died while processing the big file after adding
> July.  I have the following file space available:
> 
> 3.7 G    /
> 44 G     /data
> 6.5G    /home

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