From gecko@freecar.com Wed Mar 25 22:30:16 1998 From: gecko@freecar.com To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] System Locks up Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 23:30:16 +0100 Message-ID: <6fc0ho$of1$1@Galois.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <[S.u.S.E. Linux] System Locks up> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3529146919610505598==" --===============3529146919610505598== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 25-Mar-98 Luis A. Costabile wrote: > > >Ok, now I'm convinced there my problems at least have something to do with >'man' . On one of my systems I did a man sendmail, about 15 minutes >later the system got sluggish, I had top running already and at the top of >the list was 'man sendmail' and my free space (swap) was gradually being >eaten up. I did a kill -9 and the problem went away. > I don't have an answer... but it might have something to do with the fact that man uncompresses the man pages on the fly... I am curious... did you keep the man page up until the "kill" command or had you closed it? As for preventing it.. hmm...maybe use the "new info" document system ?? :) ---------------------------------- http://homepages.skylink.net/~gec= ko/index.html> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C++$ UL++>++++ P+++$ L++>++++ E? W+++$ N+(-) o? K- w+++$(--) O M-- V- PS-- PE++ Y++ PGP++ t+ 5 X R+ !tv b++++ DI+++ D++ G++>G+++ e h+ r* y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ---------------------------------- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e --===============3529146919610505598==--