On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:16:23PM +1000, Dragos Ionita wrote: > Hi, > > not sure that I'm in the right mailing list here, but I got myselft > the 6.1-RC1 amd64 iso yesterday and installed it. > > I've got a minimum system running and just 10 minutes ago, I ran a > 'grep' command and it returned an "out of memory" error. > > The command run was: > > grep -d recurse sasl /* > > The error caused: > > swap_pager: out of swap space > swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed > HOSTNAME kernel: pid 618 (grep), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space > Killed > > Not sure, but this seems a bit odd; I've got one GB of RAM and 512M > of swap space allocated. > > Running top beside the command gives you a nice view of what's > happening: All of the RAM is used up almost instantly and the the > swap space. All in all, in about 3 seconds, I get that out of memory > error. > > Again, I'm not an expert in these matters, but it seems odd that grep > needs more than 1.5GB to grep (even if it's recursive from the root > dir). > > Does anyone else experience that problem as well?
It's probably grepping /dev/zero, which is an exercise in futility. Kris
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