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Re: tcsh hangs after updating to cygwin 1.5.7-1. Expires with "Out of Memory"
- From: Boris Kirzner <borisk at mainsoft dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 08:02:38 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: tcsh hangs after updating to cygwin 1.5.7-1. Expires with "Out of Memory"
- References: <ECEEJLCHJDLKMHGOACFJAEGLCDAA.bax3.NO@SPAM.bigfoot.com>
Michael Bax <bax3.NO <at> SPAM.bigfoot.com> writes:
>
> I discovered that my .history file was 53 MB in size! This is with
> history 1024
> savehist (1024 merge)
> in my .login.
>
> > wc .history
> 0 3316299 53060768 .history
>
I've got the same problem with the same symptoms (the only difference - I
connect to my cygwin with putty via sshd).
Removing/renaming .history file solves the problem.
Boris
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