I am trying to fetch a dump file from one of my Ubuntu servers. The dump file is stored in .gzip format and his size is about 3GB. And then when I execute a scp command in macOS Big Sur Version 11.6 the download begins normally. After that when about 95MB has bin downloaded the command stops with this message.

sh: file size limit exceeded  scp -P1021  /Users/andrej/Desktop

even though I have enough space on my machine enter image description here

Also the settings for filesize limit is set to unlimitted on my laptop here is the output of the launchctl limit command from my terminal and ulimit -a.

 % launchctl limit
    cpu         unlimited      unlimited      
    filesize    unlimited      unlimited      
    data        unlimited      unlimited      
    stack       8388608        67104768       
    core        0              unlimited      
    rss         unlimited      unlimited      
    memlock     unlimited      unlimited      
    maxproc     2784           4176           
    maxfiles    64000          524288

The output of ulimit -a

% ulimit -a
-t: cpu time (seconds)              unlimited
-f: file size (blocks)              200000
-d: data seg size (kbytes)          unlimited
-s: stack size (kbytes)             8192
-c: core file size (blocks)         0
-v: address space (kbytes)          unlimited
-l: locked-in-memory size (kbytes)  unlimited
-u: processes                       2042
-n: file descriptors                65536
      

Maybe someone has encountered a similar problem? Any help would be appreciated.

CodePudding user response：

try using rsync utility it's well suited with large files

CodePudding user response：

I had not noticed that I had a configuration set to 200000 for the filesize when I run the ulimit -a command. The issue was resolved after setting this value to unlimited.