On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Scott H wrote:

> I use "less" to read log files, but I have
> noticed that on my RH7.3 mail server when a log
> file starts getting up there in size (50M?  100M?
> I'm not sure where it starts) I lose some
> functionality.  For instance, normally I hit

How are you running less(1)?

Are you piping data into it? (Or running it with the filename to via as a
command-line argument?)

Have a look at the --buffers=n or --auto-buffers options.

(What version of less?)

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/