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[GH-ISSUE #1284] Argument list too long #660

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opened 2026-04-12 10:21:01 -05:00 by GiteaMirror · 4 comments
GiteaMirror commented 2026-04-12 10:21:01 -05:00
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Originally created by @shubhammicrosoft1 on GitHub (Nov 27, 2023).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/1284

When i am running a summarization using ollama for reading a 7 MB file & summarizing the data on Linux , it reports

(bash: /usr/local/bin/ollama: Argument list too long)

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ollama run llama2 "$(cat data.txt)" please summarize this data

Is this a OS limitation or some configurations that we can update in Ollama

Originally created by @shubhammicrosoft1 on GitHub (Nov 27, 2023). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/1284 When i am running a summarization using ollama for reading a 7 MB file & summarizing the data on Linux , it reports (bash: /usr/local/bin/ollama: Argument list too long) Command used ollama run llama2 "$(cat data.txt)" please summarize this data Is this a OS limitation or some configurations that we can update in Ollama
GiteaMirror commented 2026-04-12 10:21:02 -05:00
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@BruceMacD commented on GitHub (Nov 27, 2023):

This command should work, I did a quick test on Ubuntu to validate. I would guess that there is a character in the file you're opening that is messing with the command input. Maybe try checking for that.

<!-- gh-comment-id:1828205321 --> @BruceMacD commented on GitHub (Nov 27, 2023): This command should work, I did a quick test on Ubuntu to validate. I would guess that there is a character in the file you're opening that is messing with the command input. Maybe try checking for that.
GiteaMirror commented 2026-04-12 10:21:02 -05:00
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@easp commented on GitHub (Nov 27, 2023):

Trying to feed it a 7MB file sounds problematic.

First, and probably the issue here, getconf ARG_MAX will show the maximum command line size in Linux and other POSIX compliant systems. On my linux box its 2MB. Feeding the content via standard input (ollama run llama2 "please summarize this data" < data.txt) should get around that, but then you'll run into an even bigger problem.

Second, llama2's context is 4096 tokens. 7MB is going to be a few orders of magnitude more than that. I think the biggest available context in an open source LLM is 200k tokens, which still isn't likely to be enough for 7MB of text.

<!-- gh-comment-id:1828761376 --> @easp commented on GitHub (Nov 27, 2023): Trying to feed it a 7MB file sounds problematic. First, and probably the issue here, `getconf ARG_MAX` will show the maximum command line size in Linux and other POSIX compliant systems. On my linux box its 2MB. Feeding the content via standard input (`ollama run llama2 "please summarize this data" < data.txt`) should get around that, but then you'll run into an even bigger problem. Second, llama2's context is 4096 tokens. 7MB is going to be a few orders of magnitude more than that. I think the biggest available context in an open source LLM is 200k tokens, which still isn't likely to be enough for 7MB of text.
GiteaMirror commented 2026-04-12 10:21:03 -05:00
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@technovangelist commented on GitHub (Dec 4, 2023):

It looks like @easp answer addresses your issue. The 7mb file is going to be greater than the context size.

But I think the error message is a bit cryptic and we should fix that to better point to the actual problem.

<!-- gh-comment-id:1839766440 --> @technovangelist commented on GitHub (Dec 4, 2023): It looks like @easp answer addresses your issue. The 7mb file is going to be greater than the context size. But I think the error message is a bit cryptic and we should fix that to better point to the actual problem.
GiteaMirror commented 2026-04-12 10:21:03 -05:00
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@mxyng commented on GitHub (Jan 20, 2024):

The error is from bash, not ollama so there's nothing to be done here.

A not-so-recent change also changed the CLI's behaviour to add the contents of stdin to the prompt. An equivalent will be this which won't have the same shell limitations.

ollama run llama2 'please summarize this data' <data.txt
<!-- gh-comment-id:1901374230 --> @mxyng commented on GitHub (Jan 20, 2024): The error is from bash, not ollama so there's nothing to be done here. A not-so-recent change also changed the CLI's behaviour to add the contents of stdin to the prompt. An equivalent will be this which won't have the same shell limitations. ``` ollama run llama2 'please summarize this data' <data.txt ```
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