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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 <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 ?? :) ---------------------------------- <A HREF="http://homepages.skylink.net/~gecko/index.html"><A HREF="http://homepages.skylink.net/~gecko/index.html</A">http://homepages.skylink.net/~gecko/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@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e