Re: grep: memory exhausted

Gavin McDonald wrote:
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From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Manuel Arostegui Ramirez
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:25 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: grep: memory exhausted

El Martes, 19 de Septiembre de 2006 17:16, Bill Tangren escribió:
I am occasionally getting the following kernel message:

Sep 19 08:54:02 mach2 kernel: usbhid: probe of 3-2.4:1.1 failed with
error
-5

I did a grep to find all occurrences of usbhid in the logs, and this is
what happened:

# cd /var/log
# grep usbhid *
anaconda.syslog:<6>usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
dmesg:usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
grep: memory exhausted

I found this unusual, as I have 2 GB of ram (not a lot these days, but
more
than I've ever had before).

Does anyone know why grep would be exhausting available ram?
Maybe is a /proc issue.
Maybe grep is eating all the input it can from files in /proc.

Just an opinion.

--
Manuel Arostegui Ramirez.


what does a

#ls -hal /var/log

tell you?

total 4.1M
and then a list of the contents. This machine is not (yet) in service, so there isn't much in the logs.




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