On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:49:49AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > When fgrepping a huge file (say 10GB) for a non-existing string, > > fgrep's memory size skyrockets. At a certain point in time its SIZE was 391M > > (RSS was about 30MB) and the system got rather unreponsive. The > > string was about 12 bytes big, and we fail to see why grep would > > need so much. > > > > Is there a good explanation for this? > > It's a known bug in grep; there are probably a bunch of PRs outstanding > on it. We need grep to be updated. > The sad thing is that GNU Grep has recently lost his maintainer. Let me know if you want additional details.
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