From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 23 13:35:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA25725 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:35:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from iconz.co.nz (iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA25714 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 13:35:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by iconz.co.nz (8.6.12/8.6.10) with ESMTP id JAA04619; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:34:28 +1300 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id JAA00492; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:34:28 +1300 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA11118; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:01:41 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA06743; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:01:40 +1300 (NZDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:01:40 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Greg Lehey cc: Gordon Henderson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleted huge directory In-Reply-To: <19971023184059.53521@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 1997 at 10:01:46AM +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: [snip] > > Find will try to sort the directory first before printing it - I belive > > it's the sort that causes the machine to run out of memory. > > Yes, this is a good point. find(1) doesn't sort the output (if all you're doing is -print), the order of it's output is effectively the same as 'ls -f'. -- Jonathan Chen Once is dumb luck. Twice is coincidence. Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something.