Hi,
Mandar Behere typed:
> it's a P III 500 MHz , 256 MB RAM . I don't think it's a slow machine.
> and RAM is also enough. Any other possible reason ?
Phew! This thing is taxing my brain! Maybe you have a *huge* list of
processes, and the whole thing can't be buffered during the pipe, so
grep runs, and ps finds grep. :-)
Bottomline is - don't rely on grep being there or not being there.
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