bug#7357: csplit: memory exhausted when using stdout / pipe instead of a file

[Pádraig Brady]

On 09/11/10 11:02, Blinker| David Hofstee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> When I try to use csplit via stdout from zcat I get the message 'csplit:
> memory exhausted'. The .gz file is a mysql dump from its databases (one
> is particularly large):

Yes csplit currently doesn't use a fixed size buffer.
We need to fix that up.

$ (ulimit -v 100000; yes | ~/git/coreutils/src/csplit - /n/)
/home/padraig/git/coreutils/src/csplit: memory exhausted
23284170

cheers,
Pádraig.