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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]