Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 11:49:49 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grep memory footage Message-ID: <200110041849.f94InnE01299@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Oct 2001 18:03:56 %2B0200." <20011004180356.A76896@gvr.gvr.org>
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> When fgrepping a huge file (say 10GB) for a non-existing string,
> fgrep's memory size skyrockets. At a certain point in time its SIZE was 391M
> (RSS was about 30MB) and the system got rather unreponsive. The
> string was about 12 bytes big, and we fail to see why grep would
> need so much.
>
> Is there a good explanation for this?
It's a known bug in grep; there are probably a bunch of PRs outstanding
on it. We need grep to be updated.
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