Re:Log File Viewer for the Terminal
by tstack on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @10:55AM
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> At that time lnav basically just kept everything in memory.
lnav has never really kept the contents of files in memory. It does build an index of every line in a file. One exception is that it will decompress small gzip files and keep them in memory as a tradeoff from decompressing on the fly.
The memory consumption has never been a problem for me. So, it's not something I've ever focused on.
lnav has never really kept the contents of files in memory. It does build an index of every line in a file. One exception is that it will decompress small gzip files and keep them in memory as a tradeoff from decompressing on the fly.
The memory consumption has never been a problem for me. So, it's not something I've ever focused on.