Reason 143 not to use nano for serious editing

General April 1st, 2009

A coworker forwarded this around today:

top - 00:19:39 up 23 days,  1:29,  4 users,  load average: 2.69, 2.38, 1.77
Tasks: 207 total,   2 running, 204 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s): 12.6%us,  1.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 77.8%id,  8.5%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.2%si, 0.0%st
Mem:  16432232k total, 16347460k used,    84772k free,   147064k buffers
Swap:  1048568k total,  1048568k used,        0k free,   940724k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
22848 astudent  25   0 14.3g  13g  820 R  100 84.5   1872:33 nano

We’re all a little curious how you can even get nano (aka pico) up to 14 gigs of RAM. Ick.

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