Messages in this thread |  | | From | Matthias Urlichs <> | Subject | Re: Two 2.0.10 problems? | Date | Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:27:19 +0100 |
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In linux.dev.kernel, article <199608062017.WAA12064@informatik.uni-koblenz.de>, Systemkennung Linux <linux@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de> writes: > > 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. > This can be blocked with the -B abd -b flags (RTFM).
A more serious issue is the fact that /proc/kcore contains all of main memory, including the I/O address space above 640k. It might be harmful to randomly read from these addresses...
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