From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2009-04-22T23:00:16+09:00
Subject: best/better way of md5suming of really large file in ruby?

I've got a script that is going through data, and in some cases,
generating md5s of the files.  Normally this isn't a problem, but I've
got a few largish (~2G) files in there, and my script is dying on it.
I ran it in a screen so I'm not sure the exact error it threw, but I'm
re-running just that part now to find out.  In the meanwhile, any
suggestions?

This is how I'm generating the md5sum right now....
Digest::MD5.hexdigest(File.read(fn))

--Kyle