On Fri, 22 May 2026, Mouse wrote: >To diagnose this in detail, I would run whatever you were doing under >syscall tracing (ktrace, strace, whatever your OS provides for syscall
… that’s way beyond the technological level of most people here, you know (: On Fri, 22 May 2026, Chime Hart wrote: >Well, thanks Mouse: In my local case, lynx is saving html versions of >each file during a session to /temp. It does that (to /tmp), yes. Which is why it is not a good tool for large downloads; use an external downloader for that. The menu that pops up when you’re on a link and press the . (full stop) key often has more suitable downloaders like GNU wget configured. If not, it can be done in lynx.cfg, if you know where you can edit yours. >After around 3.9GB I receive an error. This is the interesting part, to me. I’d think it would then evict the oldest document from the cache to make room. Maybe Thomas knows. >One of my Linux experts wonders if it depends on how much ram? /tmp is usually an in-memory filesystem, especially on Linux, where it tends to be sized to be allowed to grow up to half the installed RAM. Good luck, //mirabilos -- Solange man keine schmutzigen Tricks macht, und ich meine *wirklich* schmutzige Tricks, wie bei einer doppelt verketteten Liste beide Pointer XORen und in nur einem Word speichern, funktioniert Boehm ganz hervorragend. -- Andreas Bogk über boehm-gc in d.a.s.r
