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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:40:54 -0500
From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@panix.com>
To: Robert Leftwich <freebsd@rtl.fmailbox.com>
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Subject: Re: Memory leak?
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:30:17PM +1100, Robert Leftwich wrote:
> From: Robert Leftwich <freebsd@rtl.fmailbox.com>
> 
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:29:03 +0100, "Erik Norgaard"
> <norgaard@locolomo.org> said:
> > 
> > Do you run other applications also?
> > 
> > There was a discussion on CURRENT@ some weeks ago about a memory leak 
> > that turned out to be firefox with some extensions, updates are 
> > available now.
> > 
> 
> Unfortunately no, its cli only, no x, pretty much just Postgres and
> Python and C :-(

I've seen (very, very, very, very) large memory leaks on long-lived
Python processes.  I haven't looked at it to figure out if it's
python, some module, or the application doing something stupid.  But
the processes will grow until they hit their limits.