bash oom problem

[jack craig]

you might consider piping your echo $w | xargs...

On 10/04/2009 02:42 AM, psmith wrote:
> hi list, whilst trying to run this bash command
>
> for w in {A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z} ;do echo 
> $w;done > wl1
>
> on my aspire one (which is running rawhide) it kept crashing my system 
> down with no reasons shown in any of the logs, so i tried it on my 
> desktop machine which is an athlonx2 6000 with 2GB of ram and a raid0 
> array, with 2GB of swap and it too crashed the terminal but it did 
> give me an error and it turned out to be an oom error so i tried 
> upping the swap partition to 10GB and i'm still getting an oom crash, 
> can anyone suggest a way of getting the command to dump the output to 
> disk each time it gets close to running out of memory? or is this 
> command always doomed to fail?
>
> tia
> phil
>

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