From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] memory issue with GNU find
Date: 24 Oct 2002 11:54:45 -0400
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On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 11:43, Philippe Gramoull=E9 wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Sorry to be a little off topic here but here is the issue:
>=20
> For legal reasons we need to list all files on a filer (reiserfs FS so no=
t
> _that_ offtopic :o).
>=20
> Problem is that the filer is about 400Go and number of files according to=
=20
> /proc/fs/reiserfs/*/oidmap is about 20 Million files.
>=20
> >From what we've read and seen , find is eating up all memory to the poin=
t that
> the filer start to swap and then crashes.
>=20
> Would anyone know how to do that without bring the filer to its knees in =
terms
> of memory ?

Interesting, find should not do that unless you're trying to get it to
sort the results somehow.

Exactly how are you running the find?

-chris