Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:16:09 -0500 From: Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> To: Tai-hwa Liang <avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/bin/less weird memory consumption? Message-ID: <40813C29.9040000@alumni.rice.edu> In-Reply-To: <040417111109E.70184@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> References: <040416140449E.61901@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> <408098A7.6090407@omut.org> <040417111109E.70184@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw>
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On 4/16/2004 10:13 PM, Tai-hwa Liang wrote: > 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? It looks like less v381 was just imported and contains the fix. See revision 1.1.1.4: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/contrib/less/line.c Jon Noack
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