André Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I run du on a folder with *lots* of files (I estimate anywhere between > 200,000 to 400,000) over many subdirectories, du manages to crash my linux > sytem. I run du as a normal user. If I look at the systemlog, there is no > information to be found there. I would say that a normal program should not > be able to crash the whole system, so this may be a problem with the kernel > and not in the GNU fileutils...
Thanks for the report. I would suspect a kernel problem. The next time you run the offending command it would be good to monitor memory usage, e.g. by running `top' in another window. du from the fileutils-4.1 package is about 2.5 years old. Please try a newer version of du, from the coreutils package, e.g. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.gz (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils) or, the very latest: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.bz2 _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
