Re: Two 2.0.10 problems?
Systemkennung Linux (linux@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de)
Tue, 6 Aug 1996 22:17:08 +0200 (MET DST)
> 1) I ran 'strings /proc/kcore | less' once and the system seemed
> to die horribly. Someone might want to check this out, but I'm
> not sure if it's reproducible because I'm not willing to try
> it again :)
Less tries to hold the entire data in memory when reading from a pipe.
In your case thsi were several megabytes and your system was simply
heavily swapping.
Ralf