Re: flist -- "Killed" -- oom (*not* 1.8 related)

[Greg Minshall]

Ralph,

> To watch progress, try
> 
>     strace -e openat flist -recurse -sequence xyz -all >/dev/null

thanks.  Ken's hint about ulimit, and questioning the number of folders,
seems to have cleared things up.

> Also, is there anything odd about your tree of directories?
> Does it have cycles?  Symlinks?  Is it all on local disk?

just for reference: other than the number of folders (if 3000 is odd),
no.  no cycles, no symlinks, all on local (non-spinning, nvram) "disk".

cheers, Greg