[bugs #10821] Memory hog

[James Youngman]

This mail is an automated notification from the bugs tracker
 of the project: findutils.

/**************************************************************************/
[bugs #10821] Latest Modifications:

Changes by: 
                James Youngman <address@hidden>
'Date: 
                Fri 11/19/04 at 23:29 (GMT)

            What     | Removed                   | Added
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Privacy | Private                   | Public







/**************************************************************************/
[bugs #10821] Full Item Snapshot:

URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=10821>
Project: findutils
Submitted by: 0
On: Thu 10/28/04 at 17:43

Category:  updatedb
Severity:  5 - Average
Item Group:  None
Resolution:  Postponed
Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  
Originator Email:  
Status:  Open
Release:  4.2.0
Fixed Release:  4.2.0


Summary:  Memory hog

Original Submission:  Updatedb seems to eat horrible amounts of memory on my 
workstation, causing it to swap and near to grind to halt.

The reason is that I simply have a *lot* of files around. Couldn't updatedb 
work in a more memory friendly way?


Follow-up Comments
------------------


-------------------------------------------------------
Date: Mon 11/08/04 at 21:49         By: James Youngman <jay>
I'm marking this bug as postponed, awaiting a response from the submitter - 
meanwhile, I'll work on other bugs where I have the material to hand to 
investigate the problem. 

-------------------------------------------------------
Date: Fri 10/29/04 at 23:25         By: James Youngman <jay>
The updatedb program is a shell script - is it updatedb that hogs the memory, 
or one opf the programs it runs?   It runs

find
frcode
bigram
code
sort

Is it one of these programs that produces the large memory consumption?   













For detailed info, follow this link:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=10821>

_______________________________________________
  Message sent via/by Savannah
  http://savannah.gnu.org/