Pollywog wrote: > When I do a md5sum check on large files (500MB or larger), I get this sort of > error: > > pollywog@slider:~/RO$ md5sum RO_Beta_v3.2_Full.zip > error processing RO_Beta_v3.2_Full.zip: failed in buffer_read(fd): mdfile: > Input/output error > > > Does anyone know what is going on? It looks like the buffer_read() call is failing :-) Seriously, you are probably running out of memory/swap. Try inreasing them, or using split(1) on the file and sum the smaller chunks. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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