[Jprogramming] big files

[Damien]

Hi everybody !

I have been using J in a professional context for a few months now.
I have currenty a problem with big files. I want to read a 4.5GB text file
in 1 time. Obviously I do not want to cut it off.
I tried to simply read it with 'fread', but I get an out of memory error.
However, my pc configuration is : Red hat enterprise (2.6.9-55), intel Xeon
64-bits, 8 GB of RAM. So I do not understand why It failed.

Does anyone have an idea ?

Thanks.
Bye

Damien.