New to ubuntu

Robert Holtzman holtzm at cox.net
Thu Apr 9 08:13:03 UTC 2009


On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, NoOp wrote:

> On 04/08/2009 07:24 PM, Brian McKee wrote:
>
>>
>> As long as I'm on a roll - from a recent thread on this very list I'd
>> not been follwing...
>>
>>> FYI, I ran bdscan on a 73Gb $HOME/mail file and after a few minutes the
>>> box crashed with a cpu overtemp warning. The cpu is an AMD Athlon 5200.
>>> It looks like I will have to break the scan into segments.
>
> Oh come now Brian, use your head... the guy tryed scanning a *73Gb* mail
> file and the scanner crashed. Perhaps the same would have happened with
> ClamAV, or trying to open in gedit, or opening in Evolution, or opening
> in Thunderbird, or...

I'm the guy. Surprisingly, ClamAV didn't crash or cause an over temp 
condition when scanning this same directory recursively. Actually, 
bdscan didn't crash. The over temp condition crashed the system.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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