Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 11:13:48 +0800 (CST) From: Tai-hwa Liang <avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> To: Alex Vasylenko <lxv@omut.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/bin/less weird memory consumption? Message-ID: <040417111109E.70184@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <408098A7.6090407@omut.org> References: <040416140449E.61901@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> <408098A7.6090407@omut.org>
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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, 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. > That works like a charm! Any chance would this patch being committed into the tree?
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