Topic created on: May 9, 2009 04:56 CDT by oxident .

Hi!

I'm a newbie trying to analyse a huge monolithic linux application using IDA 5.2.
The binary is about 40MB and IDA took a few hours to finish the initial analysis. Now I want to investigate a few things within the application but it seems that IDA has some problems with such large applications.

Until now I've only analyzed a few Windows apps and found it very useful to search for string references and jump to functions which refer to this string. But when trying to do so with this linux-binary, IDA doesn't find any references to any string (although the list of strings contains over 50k entries).

I'm also facing errors like "Command OpenXrefs failed"...

Am I doing something wrong here or does IDA really have problems analyzing such huge binaries?