I'll give it a try, but I took it to mean that the history was limited to 100 events by default. Which seemed to be the case:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/dobrin> cat .history | wc -l 100 I'm still a bit worried about tcsh appearing to close but going insane instead. But as I said, this is very rare. I just hoped someone had some experience or insight into it. Bruce D. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reid Thompson Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:39 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Tcsh .history file growing out of control Bruce Dobrin wrote: > > Hi All, > > This is generally a minor headache, But routinely for about the last > 2 years while running rxvt and tcsh, I'll have a problem where I > can't start a new shell and I'll find that I have a .history file that > is 4 to > 5 gig's. I blow the thing away and all is once again right in the > world. It seems to often correspond with a user ( often myself) > having closed a shell that not only doesn't really close but starts > spinning out of control, using 100% CPU. Obviously it is doing > something that is filling the history file, but usually when I notice > it, the history file is too big to open or move and I need to solve > the problem so I just end up blowing it away. I think this started > cropping up when Cygwin moved from 1.3 to 1.5 and has happened with every version since. > I'd like to try just using bash or something else, but my facility > standard for all flavors of UNIX is tcsh and my changing to bash > wouldn't help the 1000 other people in the facility that occasionally > get burned by this when on their windows boxes. I hit it a couple of > times a month, most users much less, but it's been burning us more > and more as our users move transparently between windows, Linux and Irix. > > I hoped I'd see something crop up on the list, none of my searches > have turned up anything. > > Thanks > Bruce > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > If you set your history file to contain only 1000 events, does that fix the issue. from the tcsh man page: history The first word indicates the number of history events to save. The optional second word (+) indicates the format in which his- tory is printed; if not given, `%h\t%T\t%R\n' is used. The format sequences are described below under prompt; note the variable meaning of `%R'. Set to `100' by default. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
