On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:30:38 +0700 martin f krafft <[email protected]> wrote: > also sprach Johan Walles <[email protected]> [2009.12.21.1522 +0700]: > > Even with the egrep memory clearing issue fixed (it was long time > > ago), grep still uses up ungodly amounts of CPU time while logcheck is > > running. If the above perl hack is the way to go, please implement > > it! > > > > Or maybe logcheck is becoming big enough that it shouldn't be in > > shellscript any more? > > It should have never been a shell script.
Not sure there is much of relevance, but It may still be worth investigating whether logcheck should use silver-searcher (ag) instead of grep
