Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] System Locks up
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On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 gecko@freecar.com wrote:
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 ?? :)
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 <A HREF="mailto:luis@lac.resonet.com">mailto:luis@lac.resonet.com</A> To get Receipt Notification include %rec% anywhere in the Subject field. -- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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