grep: memory exhausted

[Gavin McDonald]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Manuel Arostegui Ramirez
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:25 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: grep: memory exhausted
> 
> El Martes, 19 de Septiembre de 2006 17:16, Bill Tangren escribió:
> > I am occasionally getting the following kernel message:
> >
> > Sep 19 08:54:02 mach2 kernel: usbhid: probe of 3-2.4:1.1 failed with
> error
> > -5
> >
> > I did a grep to find all occurrences of usbhid in the logs, and this is
> > what happened:
> >
> > # cd /var/log
> > # grep usbhid *
> > anaconda.syslog:<6>usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
> > dmesg:usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
> > grep: memory exhausted
> >
> > I found this unusual, as I have 2 GB of ram (not a lot these days, but
> more
> > than I've ever had before).
> >
> > Does anyone know why grep would be exhausting available ram?
> 
> Maybe is a /proc issue.
> Maybe grep is eating all the input it can from files in /proc.
> 
> Just an opinion.
> 
> --
> Manuel Arostegui Ramirez.
> 

what does a 

 #ls -hal /var/log

tell you?

Regards,

Gavin McDonald
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