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Article #567Shell escape in less?
From: Michael Wasfy Ibrahim
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 21:24
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 21:24
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Hello, I was considering making less the default pager for man until the following happened. Whenever I try to use the shell escape in less my system struggles for about 15 seconds and finally locks. The only way I can get it to reboot is from the ROM monitor. Checking /usr/adm/messages I find the following just before my machine's death: Jul 31 15:52:46 ibrahim-michael mach: vnode_pager: /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile is full. Hey this sounds like a good reason to crash...unfortunately it does this immediately, that is in about 10-15 seconds a 16 meg swapfile grows to fill a 105 meg disk. Sound reasonable? At least I believe this happens, I'm getting to tired of watching my machine fsck on reboot that I truly don't want to experiment anymore. As far as I know I don't have any hiwater marks set for my swapfile so that shouldn't be the problem. I suppose my question is: Has anyone experienced this type of behavior from less? If so, does anyone know a workaround? Thanks in advance! Michael Ibrahim wasfy@nic.gac.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!bronze!news From: wasfy@ibrahim-michael.eigenmann.indiana.edu (Michael Wasfy Ibrahim) Subject: Shell escape in less? Message-ID: <1992Jul31.212410.18632@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: ibrahim-michael.eigenmann.indiana.edu Reply-To: wasfy@nic.gac.edu Organization: Indiana University Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 21:24:10 GMT Lines: 24