At the office certain server log files grow way too big and trying to go through

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At the office certain server log files grow way too big and trying to go through the logs can be a real pain, when for instance you have a several GB size text file and all the normal text editors load the entire file in memory, becoming really slow or crashing.

Thus, looking for a lightweight text editor that doesn't try to load the entire file at once, since we're generally only interested in a small subset of the data, going through logs that happened somewhere in the vicinity of a certain timestamp or then hopping through all the lines logged for a certain user over time.

Sure, this would be solvable with command line tools from say Cygwin or if we actually had SSH access to production servers, but looking for a GUI solution that also people who're less CLI savvy could use when a huge logfile gets dumped on their lap

Explanation / Answer

I had the same issue with over 10 gigabytes large MySQL log and found 010Editor with the help of this question on Stack Overflow. It opened up the file fine and fast. The search results are presented very well at the bottom of the editor and searching huge files is surprisingly fast.

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