find eating all memory

[Michael De Nil <linux@aerythmic.be>]

Hi

on a simple 'find /var -name sendmail* -print' command, the find-process
eats all my memory (128 Meg RAM)
when there is no memory left, the process gets killed.

I work with debian woody with recent update, reiserfs, 128 meg RAM & 256
meg SWAP on my P3 733 system.

Here is what I get using 'top':

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM  CTIME COMMAND
24610 root      14   0 98624  82M   400 R    21.2 76.8   0:17 find


greetz
	michael


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                Michael De Nil -- michael@aerythmic.be
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