Michael De Nil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
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