Re: [9fans] du and find

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

On Mon Dec 28 20:04:48 EST 2009, lyndon@orthanc.ca wrote:
> > what seems more important to me is a way to unlimit the size
> > of argv.  otherwise we'll need to go down the hideous xargs path.
>
> How often have you run up against the current limit?  I've yet to hit
> it in anything other than contrived tests.  And even those took work.

several times a month; just often enough to be irritating.  since storage
is still going exponential, i expect this to get worse.

minooka; grep pattern `{find /sys}
grep: virtual memory allocation failed

- erik