Hi
I sometimes have to work on large data files. The HITRAN 2004 spectroscopic database, is such an example (http://cfa- www.harvard.edu/hitran//). According to the terminal command wc (wordcount), the file that I want to open contains 280 983 978 characters in 1 734 469 lines. Opening with TextWrangler takes about 20 s.After that time I can move around and do some copy and paste etc. TextMate, however, takes about 10 s on my 1.5 GHz G4 PB (2 GB Ram), then it unexpectedly quits without actually displaying the file. Can/Shouldn't I expect TextMate to work with files this large ? There appears to be a problem with memory allocation.
Here is what the console log says.
===== Dienstag, 24. Januar 2006 14:54 Uhr Europe/Berlin ===== TextMate(18765,0xa000ed68) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=1073741824) failed (error code=3) TextMate(18765,0xa000ed68) malloc: *** error: can't allocate region TextMate(18765,0xa000ed68) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): St9bad_alloc
Christof