On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 04:17:18AM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: > Hallo! > > I just stumbled upon the following. If I do > > # cd / > # grep -r * stuff > > it outputs files for maybe half a second then hangs the whole machine. The > last matches were under /dev. I can't remember grep ever scanning device > files, but maybe it's just me... > > If I do the same as user the process exits at the same point with a message > amounting to "out of memory." > > The machine is a P3-650E with 256MB RAM (+256MB swap) and ~200MB files on > all disks. A quite fresh potato-test-2 install.
Nothing specific -- haven't tried this and don't care to given your results. In general, it's not a good idea to go rooting around through /dev, particularly as root. You might want to install and configure glimpse or sglimpse to to pattern searching through your system files. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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