strange "less" behaviour on big files

From: Kai Mosebach (kai_at_freshx.de)
Date: 01/24/04

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    Hi all,

    i stumbled over a problem with less, when "lessing" big files.
    i lessed a 1.0 gig file filled with zeros and less seems to slurp in as much as
    it can get at one time! this happens only on 5.2-RELEASE, a 4.9-RELEASE does
    fine.

    my top says (on a 512 mb machine)

    20041 root 76 0 382M 193M pfault 0:03 7.03% 7.03% less

    furthermore i think the state "pfault" in top is pretty strange, and after a
    minute or so the process coredumps

    backtrace is not very useful though ...

    #0 0x2811dd4f in kill () from /lib/libc.so.5
    (gdb) bt
    #0 0x2811dd4f in kill () from /lib/libc.so.5
    #1 0x281127f8 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.5
    #2 0x2818af02 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.5
    #3 0x2818967e in tcflow () from /lib/libc.so.5
    #4 0x28189f1b in tcflow () from /lib/libc.so.5
    #5 0x2818a2d6 in malloc () from /lib/libc.so.5
    #6 0x28186ae1 in calloc () from /lib/libc.so.5
    #7 0x0805255d in clear ()
    #8 0x080535a4 in clear ()
    #9 0x08053ab6 in clear ()
    #10 0x08053dfb in clear ()
    #11 0x08051366 in clear ()
    #12 0x080523bf in clear ()
    #13 0x0804dbc0 in clear ()
    #14 0x0804dc27 in clear ()
    #15 0x0804dfcf in clear ()
    #16 0x080496b6 in free ()
    #17 0x08049242 in free ()

    Any ideas ?

    Regards Kai 

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