How can 'more' take 100 percent CPU?
1 points by abnercoimbre
1 points by abnercoimbre
I’m frustrated by how tiny this post is! (Can’t repro on my machine.) However it does raise an interesting question: which scenarios could cause the author’s command to max out CPU usage?
The post itself is pretty useless and I flagged it off-topic but since we are here...
First question is, what's "more". Is it util-linux more, a symlink to less or something else? less does more fancy processing so more possibilities there. My guess is that the glob for the grep command includes some binary files and the output look like files with very long lines when processed by more/less.