From luis@lac.resonet.com Fri Mar 27 14:28:39 1998 From: luis@lac.resonet.com To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] System Locks up Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:28:39 +0100 Message-ID: <6fgd2n$1f2$1@Galois.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <[S.u.S.E. Linux] System Locks up> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1934987213941762785==" --===============1934987213941762785== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 gecko(a)freecar.com wrote: >=20 >=20 > 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. > > >=20 > I don't have an answer... but it might have something to do with the fact t= hat > 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? >=20 > As for preventing it.. hmm...maybe use the "new info" document system ?? :) Nope, I didn't keep the man page up, I don't know what controls this, but after a 'man something' man lingers around, probably for performance reasons, so if someone does another man for the same thing, it's already "cached". How do I disable this "feature" ? Ya I'd used info but not everything is moved to info, but I kind of prefer the old 'man' but ya, if that causes problems , got to switch. -- Lou A. Costabile Voice and Fax: [613] 781-7061=20 mailto:luis(a)lac.resonet.com To get Receipt Notification include %rec% anywhere in the Subject field. -- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e --===============1934987213941762785==--