grep: memory exhausted

[Manuel Arostegui Ramirez]

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.

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Manuel Arostegui Ramirez.

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