Re: grep freezes system

2002-12-30 Thread Michael Naumann
30.12.2002 13:57:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) wrote: >On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 11:10:36PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: >> 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 "

Re: grep freezes system

2002-12-30 Thread Robert Land
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 11:10:36PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > 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 w

Re: grep freezes system

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Naumann
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, t

Re: grep freezes system

2002-12-29 Thread Robert Land
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 03:07:36PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote: > 29.12.2002 10:51:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) wrote: > > >Using recursive grep for large directory structures > >caused the entire system to freeze. > > I once had this, when I tried to access scsi-devices > with hardware-p

Re: grep freezes system

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Naumann
29.12.2002 10:51:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Land) wrote: >Using recursive grep for large directory structures >caused the entire system to freeze. I once had this, when I tried to access scsi-devices with hardware-problems. Responsiveness of the whole system went drastically down. Hanging app

Re: grep freezes system

2002-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
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

grep freezes system

2002-12-29 Thread Robert Land
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? Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]