Error when performing more command.

[MarkW_1]

When using the more function on a unix file and doing a Shift G to go to the bottom of the file I get the following error.
"Pid 8982 received a SIGSEGV for stack growth failure. Possible causes: insufficient memory or swap space or stack size exceeded maxssiz." We have 4 gig memory on this N class box, maxssiz value is 8388608. Is there an upper limit to what maxssiz can be?

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

Check with swapinfo -mt for swap problem.

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

Workaround is open the file with vi,cat,pg.

[John Bolene]

How big is the file you are trying to look at? It must be incredible.

SIGSEGV alludes to an invalid memory address

You might use view to look at the file in read only mode.

[Andrew Maslin]

Is this file a pure text file? I've had problems using more on files that are mostly text but have a few binary characters thrown in - sometimes more flips out in those instances. Maybe it's something similar in your case?

[Philip Chan_1]

I think that was just because the file being opened was way too big for the 'more' program. Try using 'vi' for it (I remember having same problem myself when open HUGE file with more).

~Philip

[Steffi Jones_1]

Hello Mark,

there is a known bug report for the more command and large files.

From what I see it is known and is been worked on and it will be fixed in a future release of the OS.

In the meantime go with the above recommendations like vi, cat, etc.

Steffi Jones