There's something wrong with bzcat in a Debian machine we're using here. I have big bzipped files here and I use them to update a MySQL database in a Debian machine. These updates happen once a day only. The problem is that after the routines of unbzipping the files,the system eats memory up. The machine is a PII 700 MHz, 512 MB of RAM.
The weirdest thing is that the memory problem brings up another a problem: a swap bug that locks the machine, sometimes generating an Oops in /var/log/messages. It cranks up probably because of a buggy FS implementation that has already been discussed in the linux kernel list (and is probably going to be fixed in 2.2.18 and 2.4.0). That doesn't answer the RAM eat-up problem, though. If anyone ever had those types of problems, let me know. I'd really like to know how did you fix this. Thanks. -- Leonardo Dias Analista Programador / Analyst Programmer Catho Online www.catho.com.br
