On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 10:51:04AM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > Using recursive grep for large directory structures > caused the entire system to freeze. > > The same happens for "find / * -group xx_x". > > I'm still using potato and the current available > findutils deb package. > > > Have any users had this before?
Totally hung? Hmm, usually trying a recursive grep of the entire filesystem will give you an out-of-memory error unless you have several GB of core. Two possible solutions: 1) Make an educated guess on what directory it's in and move closer to it (at least one level in, more if it's a particularly deep part of the filesystem like /usr). 2) Go buy a few gigabytes(!) of RAM and try again. From my experiance, adding swap will not help you when you try to grep the world. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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