Re: /usr/bin/less weird memory consumption?

From: Tim Robbins (tjr_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 04/18/04

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To: Alex Vasylenko <lxv@omut.org>

    On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:38:31PM -0400, Alex Vasylenko wrote:

    > Tai-hwa Liang wrote:
    > > Anyone tried to view a file contains *hugh* line with /usr/bin/less in
    > >-CURRENT?
    > >
    > >Sample file:
    > >
    > > dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=1500 | tr '\00' ' ' > test.txt
    > >
    > > On my -CURRENT box cvsup'd this morning, "/usr/bin/less text.txt"
    > > consumes
    > >about 511 MBytes of memory(see 'top'). -STABLE(less 358) and less 381 on
    > >Debian doesn't seem to have such problem, though.
    >
    > There's a memory leak. The latest less (382) doesn't have this problem.
    > Use attached patch.

    Thanks for pointing this out. I've imported less 381, which fixes the
    memory leak.

    Tim
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