It doesn't matter what editor opened the file, you would have had the
same effect.
Statux wrote:
>
> 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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