Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Paul Slootman) | Subject | Re: Two 2.0.10 problems? | Date | Wed, 7 Aug 1996 09:39:49 +0000 (ZOM) |
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In article <199608062017.WAA12064@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> Ralf wrote:
>Less tries to hold the entire data in memory when reading from a pipe. >In your case thsi were several megabytes and your system was simply >heavily swapping.
Use the -B option for less to prevent the automatic allocation of buffers when reading from a pipe. Note that the scrollback capability will be limited as a result, of course.
Paul Slootman -- Murphy Software, Enschede, The Netherlands There is no such thing work: paul@wau.mis.ah.nl / paul@murphy.nl as a coincidence. home: paul@wurtel.hobby.nl
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