use of more or tail

[MarkW_1]

I have a programmer who gets the following error when using tail or more on a large file(11 mb).
Pid 20993 received a SIGSEGV for stack growth failure.
Possible causes: insufficient memory or swap space,
or stack size exceeded maxssiz.
Memory fault(coredump)

any suggestions.

[Santosh Nair_1]

Check out this thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x2d97ee3e323bd5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

-Santosh

[Wodisch]

Hello Mark,

increase your kernel parameter MAXSSIZ (but not
above 80MB if your on 32bits) or tell them to
use "less".

HTH,
Wodisch

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Mark,

Take a look at the thread below,

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xaee3f9beca68d511abcd0090277a778c,00.html

Hope this helps.

thanks

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Segment Violation Errors SIGSEGV is commonly due to insufficient stack. Incrasing maxssiz kernel parameter should help you.

-Sri

[Jayaprakash_1]

increase the maxssiz,maxtsiz for text size and maxdsiz for dynamic memory allocation.hope this helps

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

Tail cant show more than 2K bytes from end of file.
So tail -30000 file will show only last 2K not 30000 lines.

A workaround to your problem:

dd if=file bs=1024k skip=10 | tail

This command will skip first 10Mb, read up to end of file and pipe it to tail.

[Steve Post]

From all of the responses you can see your file is too big for tail to work. It bombs as you pipe it from one command to another. So (if you can) bust it up into little pieces. Check out the split command. Or try to find a command that will process it a little bit at a time. (Someone mentioned the dd command here. That will work).