From: Yun Huang Yong <yun@...>
Date: 2009-04-22T23:18:37+09:00
Subject: Re: best/better way of md5suming of really large file in ruby?

Kyle Schmitt wrote:
> 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?

I googled for 'md5 large files' and ended up here:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/184834

yun

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