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SubjectRe: trashing caused by less
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
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