[Bug 1551 (linux mm)] Changed - grep causes strange memory behaviour

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http://distro.conectiva.com.br/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1551

riel@conectiva.com.br changed:

           What    |Old Value                   |New Value
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID



------- Additional Comments From riel@conectiva.com.br  2001-02-21 19:41 -------
sounds like grep is grepping device nodes for the string you are looking for,
and since character devices cannot be mmap()ed, it tries to load all of
/dev/core and /dev/mem into memory.

No surprise your system is acting funny ... however, this is not a VM-related
thing.
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