Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/01/26/15:39:14
Bruce Dobrin wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> This is generally a minor headache, But routinely for about the last 2
> years while running rxvt and tcsh, I'll have a problem where I can't
> start a new shell and I'll find that I have a .history file that is 4 to
> 5 gig's. I blow the thing away and all is once again right in the
> world. It seems to often correspond with a user ( often myself) having
> closed a shell that not only doesn't really close but starts spinning
> out of control, using 100% CPU. Obviously it is doing something that is
> filling the history file, but usually when I notice it, the history
> file is too big to open or move and I need to solve the problem so I
> just end up blowing it away. I think this started cropping up when
> Cygwin moved from 1.3 to 1.5 and has happened with every version since.
> I'd like to try just using bash or something else, but my facility
> standard for all flavors of UNIX is tcsh and my changing to bash
> wouldn't help the 1000 other people in the facility that occasionally
> get burned by this when on their windows boxes. I hit it a couple of
> times a month, most users much less, but it's been burning us more and
> more as our users move transparently between windows, Linux and Irix.
>
> I hoped I'd see something crop up on the list, none of my searches have
> turned up anything.
>
> Thanks
> Bruce
>
>
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If you set your history file to contain only 1000 events, does that fix
the issue.
from the tcsh man page:
history The first word indicates the number of history events to save.
The optional second word (+) indicates the format in
which his-
tory is printed; if not given, `%h\t%T\t%R\n' is
used. The
format sequences are described below under prompt;
note the
variable meaning of `%R'. Set to `100' by default.
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