On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Mandar Behere wrote:
> Hi,
> Just to mention, no user processes were running except x-windows and 2-3
> terminal windows.
And I tried it in the single user mode with only 7 other processes
running, sometimes giving output and other times not. So where's the
question of buffering??
> Mrinal Kalakrishnan wrote:
>
> > 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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> > Linux 2.2.12-20 || PGP:B1E86F5B || Mutt 1.2i (2000-05-09) || VIM 5.6
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