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On 25-Mar-98 Luis A. Costabile wrote:
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>Ok, now I'm convinced there my problems at least have something to do with
>'man'  .   On one of my systems I did a man sendmail,  about 15 minutes
>later the system got sluggish, I had top running already and at the top of
>the list was 'man sendmail' and my free space (swap) was gradually being
>eaten up.  I did a kill -9 <pid> and the problem went away.
>

I don't have an answer... but it might have something to do with the fact that
man uncompresses the man pages on the fly... I am curious... did you keep
the man page up until the "kill" command or had you closed it?

As for preventing it.. hmm...maybe use the "new info" document system ?? :)

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