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From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
To: Alex Vasylenko <lxv@omut.org>
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Subject: Re: /usr/bin/less weird memory consumption?
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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