29.12.2002 20:06:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) wrote: >Yet this grep thing happened today - I know 64MB RAM is >not quite what you would use nowadays - but I only have >currently a few xterms running and no fancy stuff which >would eat up my mem (swap is nearly untouched).
I'm fairly sure, that the memory consumption of grep is quite independent of the number of files/dirs to be searched. Except for transferirng memory Buffers from "free" to "cached", which can again be viewed as free. Complete lockup? That's pretty strange. I'd like to know how to reproduce this. For our companies products, we have to be (or make) sure, that nothing alike is ever going to happen. I suggest you preprend "strace -e open" to your grepcommand. Thus you will eventually see, which file causes the problem. HTH, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
