Did you try the same thing in vi? If not.. don't complain :)
100MB file.. how much RAM was free before hand? that file's goin right
into swap no matter what editor you use if you run out of RAM.
-Statux
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Lee Howard wrote:
> I had a user ftp up a 100MB+ text file and then try opening it with pico.
> Well, it brought the system to its knees, and it went unresponsive for
> nearly an hour (128MB RAM, 8GB HDD, AMD K6-2/450) until I executed a
> 'shutdown -r' (and even that took several minutes to initiate).
>
> Now maybe the user wasn't all that careful, but it seems innocent enough.
>
> How is this not a security issue? Seems to me that pico needs to be a
> little more concerned about CPU usage when it opens a file.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Lee Howard
>
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