Message
From: redhat-list-bounces (AT) redhat (DOT) com [mailto:redhat-list-
bounces (AT) redhat (DOT) com] Behalf Manuel Arostegui Ramirez
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:25 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: grep: memory exhausted
El Martes, 19 de Septiembre de 2006 17:16, Bill Tangren :
I am occasionally getting the following kernel message:
Sep 19 08:54:02 mach2 kernel: usbhid: probe of 3-2.4:1.1 failed with
error
-5
I did a grep to find all occurrences of usbhid in the logs, and this is
what happened:
# cd /var/log
# grep usbhid *
anaconda.syslog:<6>usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
dmesg:usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
grep: memory exhausted
I found this unusual, as I have 2 GB of ram (not a lot these days, but
more
than I've ever had before).
Does anyone know why grep would be exhausting available ram?
Maybe is a /proc issue.
Maybe grep is eating all the input it can from files in /proc.
Just an opinion.

Gavin McDonald wrote:
>Message
>From: redhat-list-bounces (AT) redhat (DOT) com [mailto:redhat-list-
>bounces (AT) redhat (DOT) com] Behalf Manuel Arostegui Ramirez
>Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:25 AM
>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>Subject: Re: grep: memory exhausted
>>
>El Martes, 19 de Septiembre de 2006 17:16, Bill Tangren :
I am occasionally getting the following kernel message:

Sep 19 08:54:02 mach2 kernel: usbhid: probe of 3-2.4:1.1 failed with
>error
-5

I did a grep to find all occurrences of usbhid in the logs, and this is
what happened:

# cd /var/log
# grep usbhid *
anaconda.syslog:<6>usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
dmesg:usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
grep: memory exhausted

I found this unusual, as I have 2 GB of ram (not a lot these days, but
>more
than I've ever had before).

Does anyone know why grep would be exhausting available ram?
>Maybe is a /proc issue.
>Maybe grep is eating all the input it can from files in /proc.
>>
>Just an opinion.
>>
>--
>Manuel Arostegui Ramirez.
>>

what does a

#ls -hal /var/log

tell you?

total 4.1M
and then a list of the contents. This machine is not (yet) in service, so there
isn't much in the logs.