X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Message-ID: <43D93365.502@ateb.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:39:01 -0500
From: Reid Thompson <reid DOT thompson AT ateb DOT com>
Reply-To: reid DOT thompson AT ateb DOT com
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Tcsh .history file growing out of control
References: <B7392353E4C4DE4ABC4EC255DB4CA04003471227 AT EXCHVS1 DOT spimageworks DOT com>
In-Reply-To: <B7392353E4C4DE4ABC4EC255DB4CA04003471227@EXCHVS1.spimageworks.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

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
>
>
> --
> Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
> FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
>
>   
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.


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/