[geeks] MAX_ARG issue

Kevin kevin at mpcf.com
Fri Oct 24 08:44:57 CDT 2003


Thanks for the help.

/KRM

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:53:57 +0100
Mike Meredith <mike at blackhairy.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I rarely bother, but it's fairly easy to do ... just find ARG_MAX in
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/*, increase it, and recompile the kernel.
> I'd only anticipate problems in a very small memory machine.
> 
> > I've gotten around the issue today using "find ./ -iname "spam*"
> > -exec rm {} \;" 
> 
> I usually stick to that ... it keeps the -exec memory neurons well
> lubricated.



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