I now observe the same thing in Ubuntu, after upgrading from
6.06 "dapper" to 6.10 "edgy", e.g. with
p=`ps -fC Xorg`
time perl -e '$|=1; foreach $x (1..500) { print "x" foreach(1..$x); print " $x\n" }'
echo "$p"; ps -fC Xorg
Funny...
Cheers,
Paul Szabo psz@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia