Author: Steve Kirk Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire]
tail -f logfile in screen session ... server dies... coincidence?
On Friday 30 January 2009 11:13, Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 at 10:47:41AM +0000, Victor Churchill wrote:
> > This morning the server was deadly slow and unresponsive - not
> > quite dead but bogged down. Am getting the data centre to reboot it
> > as I write. That screen session would not lead to a huge memory
> > footprint ... would it??
>
> I can't speak for your situation, but I've left screen sessions
> running for months at a time on a server. I've also had tail
> following files for days, no problems yet. What did the system
> think was eating resources?
I'd have to agree that it seems unlikely. I usually leave my sessions
open pretty much permanently, and so do the vast majority of other
users on this server!
Unless of course you happen to have hit a bug on your platform or build
of screen etc...
