On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 01:08:10AM -0000, Gianni Tedesco wrote: > I also noticed problems with ghex and large files. Is it a 32 or 64 bit > CPU that you're using?
64bit: AMD64 Ubuntu Gutsy. > I'm not sure ghex is designed to handle that big > a file at all. Besides it ought to save to a temporary file and rename > it over the original, just to be safe and avoid chomping your data > anyway. Yeah, as long as it always re-writes the whole file anyway, that's a good plan. It's not really useable on block devices of any significant size anyway, with its current design. > As for the performance with big files, mmap is the way to go. The > attached patch demonstrates this. I tried it out on some fairly modestly > sized files (600MB sort of ballpark) and the results were predictably > spectacular. This patch is a bug-ridden hack but it might work for your > case. > > I started work on doing all this portably with glib. There's a way to do > it without changing the UI behaviour but it's not a trivial one-nighter > and my school homework + other things got in the way for now so... I don't really have time to spend on this either. :( -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , des.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BC -- ghex truncates large files when saving https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/165213 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
