Unable to see all file in a current directory

srikanthus2002 · #1 (**permalink**) 09-27-2006

Hi,

I am unable to see all files in a current directory when use "ls -lrt" command
it is giving error message as below ( I think this current directory is having about 500 files)

<CONTROL /home/ckanth/sri>ls -lrt
UX:ls: ERROR: Out of memory: Insufficient or invalid memory

But when i give specific argument it is working
<CONTROL /home/ckanth/sri>ls -lrt *PRINT

-rw-rw-rw- 1 logic sri 51153 Sep 25 08:55 560PRINT
-rw-rw-rw- 1 logic sri 47045 Sep 26 10:07 561PRINT
-rw-rw-rw- 1 logic sri 48704 Sep 27 11:03 562PRINT

I will be very gladful if you give a solution of same.

thanks

Yogesh Sawant · #2 (**permalink**) 09-27-2006

seems like there are too many files in that directory and the Operating System ran out of memory when sorting the list of files.
Try ls -f instead.
Or you may have to solve the memory problem at kernel level.

srikanthus2002 · #3 (**permalink**) 09-27-2006

Hi yogesh,

command "ls -f" is not working and giving same error message.
any remedy of same.

Yogesh Sawant · #4 (**permalink**) 09-27-2006

see if this helps: http://groups.google.co.in/groups?q=...n&lr=&filter=0

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