On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 10:57:24AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from Andreas Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
[snip copious headers] > I have used the program cdda2wave. > I gues that it will create big files (about 50MB and more). > After my tryings I deleted my big files: > > rm "big file" > > But rm doesen terminate. I couldn't kill or stop it. > I try'd to shut down the system but it didn't work. > More and more systempower becomes eaten by the rm-programm.. :-( Linux can take a *long* time to delete large files (I havn't had any problems personally even with 230MB files (a recursive grep piped to the current directory ;-)) I believe that rm also starts taking large amounts of memory up too. This could cause your machine to swap heavily - have a look at "vmstat -n1". Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
