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Re: tcsh hangs after updating to cygwin 1.5.7-1. Expires with "Out of Memory"
- From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: Boris Kirzner <borisk at mainsoft dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:10:01 -0400
- Subject: Re: tcsh hangs after updating to cygwin 1.5.7-1. Expires with "Out of Memory"
- References: <ECEEJLCHJDLKMHGOACFJAEGLCDAA.bax3.NO@SPAM.bigfoot.com> <loom.20050705T095923-650@post.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 04:02 AM 7/5/2005, you wrote:
>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.
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