Previously Helmut Metzdorf wrote: > i'll tell you: i consider it to be a bug that the system tries to > cache even pure input files (InPut = fopen(XFileName, "r");) and i > cant see the rationale behind it, This is very much a kernel issue. The big problem here is that it is very hard for the kernel to detect if a file access will be done only once and should not be cached or if it should be cached. You could try running a recent development kernel (2.1.125 is quite stable) and see if that behaves better. I should be much more memory-efficient in any case. > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x400903e0 in __xstat () We can't really say anything about this without seeing the code or a strace-run.. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@wi.LeidenUniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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