[10037] in Athena Bugs
Re: rt 7.4G: purge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Oct 27 23:52:56 1992
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 92 23:52:46 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: cstudly@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [10035]
Thank you for your bug report.
The most common cause of the problem you observed is that there are
too many files to be purged in your home directory for the purge
program to be able to store them all in memory.
Some steps have been taken to make purge use less memory, so that this
does not occur in future releases.
In the neamtime, typing "unlimit" before running purge may cause the
problem to go away.
If that does not work, then this command can be used to eliminate the
deleted files in your home directory:
find ~ -name '.#*' -rm
NOTE: Type this command carefully, or you may remove other files
inadvertantly. If you wish to be sure you do it right, you can ask
for help from the SIPB or from Athena's consultants.
We are sorry for the inconvenience caused by this bug.
Jonathan Kamens
IS/Athena Quality Assurance
