Tcsh .history file growing out of control
Hi All, This is generally a minor headache, But routinely for about the last 2 years while running rxvt and tcsh, I'll have a problem where I can't start a new shell and I'll find that I have a .history file that is 4 to 5 gig's. I blow the thing away and all is once again right in the world. It seems to often correspond with a user ( often myself) having closed a shell that not only doesn't really close but starts spinning out of control, using 100% CPU. Obviously it is doing something that is filling the history file, but usually when I notice it, the history file is too big to open or move and I need to solve the problem so I just end up blowing it away. I think this started cropping up when Cygwin moved from 1.3 to 1.5 and has happened with every version since. I'd like to try just using bash or something else, but my facility standard for all flavors of UNIX is tcsh and my changing to bash wouldn't help the 1000 other people in the facility that occasionally get burned by this when on their windows boxes. I hit it a couple of times a month, most users much less, but it's been burning us more and more as our users move transparently between windows, Linux and Irix. I hoped I'd see something crop up on the list, none of my searches have turned up anything. Thanks Bruce -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Tcsh .history file growing out of control
Bruce Dobrin wrote: Hi All, This is generally a minor headache, But routinely for about the last 2 years while running rxvt and tcsh, I'll have a problem where I can't start a new shell and I'll find that I have a .history file that is 4 to 5 gig's. I blow the thing away and all is once again right in the world. It seems to often correspond with a user ( often myself) having closed a shell that not only doesn't really close but starts spinning out of control, using 100% CPU. Obviously it is doing something that is filling the history file, but usually when I notice it, the history file is too big to open or move and I need to solve the problem so I just end up blowing it away. I think this started cropping up when Cygwin moved from 1.3 to 1.5 and has happened with every version since. I'd like to try just using bash or something else, but my facility standard for all flavors of UNIX is tcsh and my changing to bash wouldn't help the 1000 other people in the facility that occasionally get burned by this when on their windows boxes. I hit it a couple of times a month, most users much less, but it's been burning us more and more as our users move transparently between windows, Linux and Irix. I hoped I'd see something crop up on the list, none of my searches have turned up anything. Thanks Bruce -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ If you set your history file to contain only 1000 events, does that fix the issue. from the tcsh man page: history The first word indicates the number of history events to save. The optional second word (+) indicates the format in which his- tory is printed; if not given, `%h\t%T\t%R\n' is used. The format sequences are described below under prompt; note the variable meaning of `%R'. Set to `100' by default. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: Tcsh .history file growing out of control
I'll give it a try, but I took it to mean that the history was limited to 100 events by default. Which seemed to be the case: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/dobrin cat .history | wc -l 100 I'm still a bit worried about tcsh appearing to close but going insane instead. But as I said, this is very rare. I just hoped someone had some experience or insight into it. Bruce D. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reid Thompson Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:39 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Tcsh .history file growing out of control Bruce Dobrin wrote: Hi All, This is generally a minor headache, But routinely for about the last 2 years while running rxvt and tcsh, I'll have a problem where I can't start a new shell and I'll find that I have a .history file that is 4 to 5 gig's. I blow the thing away and all is once again right in the world. It seems to often correspond with a user ( often myself) having closed a shell that not only doesn't really close but starts spinning out of control, using 100% CPU. Obviously it is doing something that is filling the history file, but usually when I notice it, the history file is too big to open or move and I need to solve the problem so I just end up blowing it away. I think this started cropping up when Cygwin moved from 1.3 to 1.5 and has happened with every version since. I'd like to try just using bash or something else, but my facility standard for all flavors of UNIX is tcsh and my changing to bash wouldn't help the 1000 other people in the facility that occasionally get burned by this when on their windows boxes. I hit it a couple of times a month, most users much less, but it's been burning us more and more as our users move transparently between windows, Linux and Irix. I hoped I'd see something crop up on the list, none of my searches have turned up anything. Thanks Bruce -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ If you set your history file to contain only 1000 events, does that fix the issue. from the tcsh man page: history The first word indicates the number of history events to save. The optional second word (+) indicates the format in which his- tory is printed; if not given, `%h\t%T\t%R\n' is used. The format sequences are described below under prompt; note the variable meaning of `%R'. Set to `100' by default. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
