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du 4.1 crashes linux system
From: |
André Somers |
Subject: |
du 4.1 crashes linux system |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:42:37 +0200 |
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Hi,
I am seeing an odd problem with my du, but I'm not sure where exactly the
problem is: with the kernel or with du itself.
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...
My system:
Athlon XP 2000+, 512 MB RAM, 60GB + 40GB disk space, SuSE Linux 8.0, kernel
2.4.18-SuSE
swapon -s reports:
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/hda1 partition 771080 0 42
If you need more information, please to hessitate to ask me. I am curious to
your opinion on this matter.
Regards,
André Somers
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