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Article #537memory leak
From: Ray Nickson
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1989 01:07
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1989 01:07
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The following bug which I reported in version 1.02 does not seem to have
gone away in 1.03.
From: Ray Nickson <nickson@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 15:59:34 +1200
I don't think this has been reported before; apologies if it has.
Loops cause bash (1.02, gcc-compiled on HP300s running MORE/Bsd and
Sun380s running SUNOS4) to consume memory without bound.
This is quite dramatic; put bash into a tight loop
(while :; do :; done) and watch the memory size; it goes up tens of
Ks a second on a lightly loaded sun. Similar behaviour also occurrs
with other more realistic loops, adding 20K or so for every half
dozen iterations.
Sorry I can't give any more details, I'll look deeper if you can't
reproduce it.
-rgn
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Ray Nickson, Dept. Comp. Sci., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!comp.vuw.ac.nz!nickson From: nickson@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Ray Nickson) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: memory leak Message-ID: <8909040109.AA21348@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Date: 4 Sep 89 01:07:38 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 25