I don't see how it could. Tail doesn't use more memory as it reads more lines. It sets up a fixed-size buffer and then continually re-uses it. Yes, "tail -f" co

I don't see how it could. Tail doesn't use more memory as it reads more lines. It sets up a fixed-size buffer and then continually re-uses it. Yes, "tail -f" could be a long-running process, but its memory usage should remain constant over its entire lifetime.