Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Mar 1996 23:27:06 +0000 (GMT) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: trashing caused by less |
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On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, hollubyi@ind.eunet.hu wrote:
> > Hi ! > > I played around a bit with the pager less, and found that 50% > increase in file size gives a horrible increase (x400) in execution time. > > I piped large text files ( which do not fit into memory) to less, > went to the end of the file, and measured the execution times. > > I do not know how much of this problem is caused by the kernel. > The editor jed does not have any problem. It reads in the very same > file in 15 sec. It took about 3 hours for less. > ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ Try less filename then shift-f, ctrl-c. Was that too slow ? Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgoten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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