Re: find eating all memory
Michael De Nil <linux@aerythmic.be> writes:
> 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
>
>
I cannot reproduce that neither on my Athlon 900Mhz, 384MB, ext3fs nor
on my Duron 700MHz, 192MB, reiserfs systems. But anyway, you should
probably file a bug against findutils. The maintainer/upstream may
have more of a clue what causes this. Perhaps you should try another
kernel (2.2/2.4) first, to preclude a kernel bug.
Andy
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