Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:53:46 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Tai-hwa Liang <avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/bin/less weird memory consumption? Message-ID: <20040416145346.GA86444@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <040416140449E.61901@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> References: <040416140449E.61901@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw>
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In the last episode (Apr 16), Tai-hwa Liang said: > Hi, > > 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. Yes, I've been seeing it for a while, too, but haven't tried to track down the cause. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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