From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17328 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2001 23:19:45 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 11 Sep 2001 23:19:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 4925 invoked by alias); 11 Sep 2001 23:19:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 15790 Received: (qmail 4909 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2001 23:19:35 -0000 From: Bart Schaefer Message-Id: <010911161924.ZM24820@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 16:19:24 -0700 In-Reply-To: Comments: In reply to Monty Scroggins "RE: zsh: fatal error: out of memory" (Sep 11, 5:22pm) References: X-Mailer: Z-Mail Lite (5.0.0 30July97) To: Monty Scroggins , zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: zsh: fatal error: out of memory MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sep 11, 5:22pm, Monty Scroggins wrote: > > HISTFILE=~/.sh_history; export HISTFILE > > This seems to have been what was causing me all the > headaches... Is this a bug in ZSH? Is this something > that ZSH should handle?? At the least it demonstrates a potential problem with different shells using the same parameter name for what may be differently-formatted data. What does the content of ~/.sh_history look like? What's the file size? It's also possible that it's the setting of HISTSIZE and/or SAVEHIST that are actually the problem. Are those parameters set?