Horacio Reyes wrote:
Fews weeks ago, we change our old AIX for a new intel/fedora machine. We
make software in ansi C, we recompile all programs with gcc and works fine
with almost every input file, until we process a program with a 3Gb input
file (AFP file), then one of our programs say "File size limit exceeded"
We re-run this on our old AIX and works fine with this file.
Any idea?
What file system do you use? Ext2 and Ext3 have a limit at about 2 GB. Some other file systems can handle larger files.
Most likely the error message in their program is wrong, and they are hitting a memory addressing limit.
-- There is no such thing as obsolete hardware. Merely hardware that other people don't want. (The Second Rule of Hardware Acquisition) Sam Flory <sflory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
