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by Florin_Andrei 4916 days ago
> less. Overkill, but SO MUCH BETTER THAN tail -f. Seriously.

If you do this on my servers, I am going to find you, and then I am going to kill... um... your process.

less with SHIFT-F takes a whole CPU core to run on a busy log file. tail -f takes almost nothing to run. Now combine that information with the reality of a whole bunch of devs who don't know it or don't care about it. :(