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Re: ON LINKS AND THINGS



On Feb 7, 11:43pm, stephen.white@adam.com.au wrote:
> Subject: RE: ON LINKS AND THINGS
>
>
> Has anyone else had trouble with "makewhatis"? It seems to run 'sed' in a
loop,
> which just fills up all the virtual memory and crashes the machine.
>
> I have 32MB of swap space, so I don't think this is the problem.
>
>-- End of excerpt from stephen.white@adam.com.au

Same problem for me. Sed goes just uses more and more swap space - I tried
increasing mine but it just kept using it. Try a message to linux.help, it may
get some response.

Adrian

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